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It is a responsible idea to have National Health Care Coverage if and ONLY if:
* we can find a way to cut the severe malpractice insurance premiums physicians are forced to pay because of frivolous lawsuits and enormous out of court settlements made by insurance companies;
* we can find a way to make the cost of medical school education less expensive. By the time a physician has finished obtaining a 4 yr. Undergraduate degree, then attending 4 years of Medical School; then a residency; then a Specialty Residency, most Docs don't even BEGIN to earn a decent living wage until they are in their mid 30's or later. Then they are faced with hundreds of thousands of dollars in college loans that they must pay off, in addition to the exorbitant malpractice insurance premiums;

* a co-payment is required of each and every patient for each and every service.

Currently, there are patients calling an ambulance, at taxpayer expense because they are on Medicaid, to take them to the Emergency Department for "abdominal pain" and then, when they get the results back from the pregnancy test, done at taxpayer expense, because they are on Medicaid, they call a friend, on their RazR cell phone, being ever so careful not to mess up their freshly applied 3" French Manicured Talons, to come pick them up and take them home. This whole escapade just cost the tax-paying public about $7,000. Had little Ms. Medicaid abuser NOT had Medicaid...the cost to go to Walmart, or some other discount store of her choice, by public transportation, would have been 50 cents and then perhaps $5 for the pregnancy test of her choice.

If it's this bad with Medicaid, can you imagine the abuses with National Health Care? Canadians who can afford to come to the U.S. for medical treatment do just that. Why, when Canada has Socialized Medicine? Because they have waiting lists. It's not uncommon to wait 5 years for simple surgical procedures. It can take 6 months to get on the schedule for a diagnostic procedure like an MRI or a CT. Their Doctors and Nurses are leaving their country in droves to escape the horror that is their system of National Health care.

Do you like the way the Government handled the care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center? Do you think they would do a better job administering health care on a National Basis? I don't!

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