Socialized Healthcare

The hidden costs and problems with socialized healthcare are:

1, The US healthcare system currently benefits from a brain drain from around the world, the many talented Doctors, Nurses and other professionals come to the Private US system to make a better salary and for the most part enjoy better working conditions. This benefits all Americans including those without insurance who still get treated. If the US government ran healthcare, those salaries would start to slide down to the level of the UK or Canada (JUST LOOK AT REIMBURSEMENT RATES FROM MEDICARE AND MEDICAID), therefore, the incentive to move to the US would be taken away from the many talented around the world, an even greater shortage of healthcare providers would ensue and American patients would suffer.

2, When you fund a healthcare system by taxes, you never have enough money, self employed people in the UK bend over backwards to find ways to avoid paying taxes, what you are left with is an underfunded system that can only survive with a tax increase and the cycle continues. You cannot cheat a health insurance company, you either the pay the premiums or you are not covered, in the UK, patients who have private plans are moved to the front of the line for surgeries that include Heart bypass, while those with "free" healthcare wait up to two years.

3, Another way they try and push it is to say, oh well look at those countries who have socialized plans, they spend 90% of their money on prevention, YES BUT, what is the total amount of dollars per patient. If the US spends $10,000 per patient and only 40% on prevention, that is $4k per patient, if Norway spends only $4k per patient but spends 90% on prevention that is less than the American, so tell me who is being treated better? Democrats push these figures without accurately and honestly representing them, hoping you will just blindly follow the mantra without question, they hope you have no idea about what values and principles America was founded on and chances are you don't because you went to a Liberal public school for anti-US indoctrination.