GOP and College Comments
Wait a minute? A Michael Moore "documentary" is less-than-factual? BLASPHEMY!
"If you have a socialist/communist society where everyone makes the same amount of money, then why strive to do more?"
Exactly.
""If you have a socialist/communist society where everyone makes the same amount of money, then why strive to do more?""
1) You strive to do more because you're a doctor and you want to heal people without having to deal with dollar signs. Doctors don't like dealing with dollar signs. They just want to heal people. Universal health care removes the barrier of inequality and allows the DOCTOR to help the PATIENT more.
2) I take it you didn't see the movie, because then you'd have seen the Brit doctor who said that he has an incentive to being a better doctor -- he gets paid bonuses if he gets patients to stop smoking, lower blood pressure, etc. So that's striving to do more.
And look, they don't even have to be entirely communist or socialist to do so. His point isn't to socialize America's entire bureaucracy. It's rather to say that our system is cracked and there are other countries that are doing a better, more effective, and fair job of protecting their citizens' health.
F911 and Bowling were pretty politicized, but I have a hard time seeing legitimate qualms that people have with Moore's point in sicko. That is, unless you're being paid by the health insurance industry.
1) In case you haven't noticed, being a doctor/physician can be one of the most stressful jobs in the working world, and if you allow the government to control how much income a doctor can make from his occupation, you are setting up a very large fall.
2) "I take it you didn't see the movie, because then you'd have seen the Brit doctor who said that he has an incentive to being a better doctor -- he gets paid bonuses if he gets patients to stop smoking, lower blood pressure, etc. So that's striving to do more" - You just proved my point. He's not doing it to benifit the communities health, he's doing it to make himself more money.
And I would love to see you give one country who has a more efficient health care system then the United States. I am quite sure that if it is better, the government is not a part in regulating the health care system. It is a VERY well known fact that people from Canada, and some European countries who come to America for our health care services.
Sadly ChrisA has completely missed the point.
"If there's nothing for you to gain (profits in the case of insurers), then what are your incentives?"
Some countries have national health systems and while doctors and medical staff are paid there is no insurance company in the middle gouging people for profit.
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