Who hurts the US Healthcare system worse?

Presumably you have some actual statistics to back this up rather than just parroting Faux Noise talking points.Corporate welfare is the biggest strain on the budget, especially when these companies don't pay any taxes.Why are most low wage people on SNAP and other assistance programs even when they work 2 jobs and more than 40 hours a week?Wallmart and McDonalds for example ... most of them working parents ... while management claims record salaries.If you don't know what is going on, then you are part of the problem.You can choose to be ignorant, but it is an easily curable condition.Enjoy.

To this and the comment about "brain drain" (which involves other professions as well as medicine) I ask:Would you rather be treated by a doctor that wants to doctor or one that wants to make money?Take excess profits out of the picture and you end up with doctors that want to doctor.Curiously I think that would be an improvement.

Rewards aren't necessarily monetary. Doctors without Borders. Preventative medicine is way cheaper than treating ailments.Edited by RAZD, : No reason given.

Charging a lot doesn't make them better either.Edited by RAZD, : .

Where to? If all other developed countries have socialized single payer medical systems who is going to pay more?Any idea how doctor salaries compare from country to country?

Nope.

Then maybe I don't want that doctor.

Alone? I doubt it.The major cost of US health care is due to excess profit grabbing by insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and for-profit hospital corporations.Health related industries should be non-profit organizations.When the motive for service is profit people suffer.

Just drop the medicare eligibility age a year every year, and in 60 years we would have single payer medical system. Everyone would have time to adjust.

No, we need to demand that the age eligibility drop 1 year every year. We can sell it to the cons as a means to ensure the success of medicare will eventually relieve the problems of the ACA ...

and that is the way to break the republican strangle in the house.one state at a time.and just as the republican governors are finding that the ACA has benefits and are signing on, so too they will find that state expanding medicare cuts costs further and provides better coverage.

If I had to pick one thing that most hurts the US healthcare system it would have to be the Republican party.If they were truly interested in fiscal responsibility and lowering costs then they should be behind universal single payer care via expanded medicare.Coming in a close second are the health care corporations that are intent on making obscene profits from the misery of others.