[quote]Originally posted by Nydlari:
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I would take the other end of MagiK's approach:
Legalize and tax, then use the revenue from these taxes to fund universal health care for everyone so that the people using the majority of the health care resources pay the health care bill.
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Universal health Care doesnt work...any where. Because you have de-coupled the market forces and the laws of supply and demand you end up with lousey service, long long waits and at best a mediocre product. A product wich will have costs spiraling through the roof or have the quality plumet. Having many Canadians as friends from my military days, I know that when they need immediate serious health care and can afford it..they bypass the canadian socialized medicne to come to the states for treatment...this is a HUGE situation. It rivals the trips to mexico people here in the states make to buy perscription drugs at a lower cost.
EDIT: I don't mean to be picking on the Canadian system here, it is just the one I am most familiar with personally, I noted a statistic once that said there were only something like 6 MRI machines in all of canada...I know we have that many in just the state I live in...or more,
The european socialized medical systems I have heard about also seem to fall far short of the standard of care that is common in the USA..I will say however that HMO's are ruining that as well so, who know...there is no good answer maybe.
[ 04-01-2002, 02:14 PM: Message edited by: MagiK ]