First of all, it's a flat out LIE that we have a "pay or suffer" system. Have you not heard of Medicare and Medicaid? State Health Clinics? Have you not heard that we passed Indigent Care laws, requiring EVERY hospital to care for the sick regardless of ability to pay? How about you just stop LYING and pretending these programs do not exist?
The next thing you need to understand is, once we destroy the system we have in place, there is no system to go back to, it is gone forever. This is why countries never go back to the old system, they can't... it no longer exists... it was destroyed! You guys keep repeating this as if it's some kind of sales point... obviously the people must be happy, they didn't revert back to what they had before! THEY COULDN'T... THERE WASN'T ANYTHING TO REVERT BACK TO! Do you honestly believe the health insurance companies and providers are going to just sit on the sidelines for 10 years, in case we decide to change our minds? So how would you revert? Go out and find people who wanted to invest in a private health care system again? Good luck with that! Who is ever going to invest in something that is subject to be destroyed on a whim by idiot liberals? The point is, once you've destroyed our system, we can't go back.
More misunderstandings and confusion.
Countries can very easily go back. Canada is one example. When universal medical was implemented private clinics were discouraged so as to ensure some people didn't go to the head of the line.
That was over 40 years ago. Now there are private clinics trying to start up in Canada and they are contesting the law that originally banned them.
Why? Because there is money to be made. People are generally wealthier than they were back in the 60s. The "boomers", as a generation, did very well. So, now they don't like waiting in line. Now they want the doctor that phones them at home like they're someone important. Meanwhile, the doctor could be operating or treating someone rather then being on the phone.
Blue Cross still insures Canadians when they travel as the Canadian government pays a set amount for procedures and Blue Cross pays the rest.
There will always, always, always be a doctor or group of doctors and other medical personnel ready to jump in where there is a vacuum. Don't worry about that.
As for every hospital being obliged to help the sick the whole point is to screen people before they require hospitalization. Yearly check-ups. Blood tests. Medical care BEFORE they are at death's door. Treating ailments that aren't necessarily life-threatening.
Lastly, preventing people from losing everything they worked all their life for because their insurance has a disqualifying clause.
Don't listen to the crap opponents are spewing. They are lying. Do some research. Investigate.
Not one country has switched back to the old "pay or suffer" system and every country started out with one. There is a reason and it's not because they can't.
