Quote Originally Posted by JakeMartinez
I think that's false. Doctors and researches who are actually devoted to their work will still make the progress, and could be paid by the government for their hard work. If profit drove research, we would probably have cures for Diabetes, AIDS, and cancer right now. The problem is that it's much more profitable for these diseases to still be around than it is to cure them.

That's the sad part.
What's sad is that a good number of doctors do become doctors in order to make money. Socialized medicine would require regulation in other markets aside from the insurance industry otherwise costs would get out of hand. A doctor's Salary is directly dependant on what an insurance company will pay for. When you have a socialized healthcare plan then you force a TON of risk onto policy writer. The only way to cover the risk is to charge a high premium or to regulate other fields.

Shrug.. I like my doctor making 100-200k/year and I would hate to see that impeded when 61% of American's have employer based insurance, 19% have no insurance and the remainder have medicare/medicaid or are unconfirmed.

We've had a 9% decline in employer based insurance since 1988. That is less than 0.5% a year. This would seem to indicate a problem that needs to be addressed and not necessarily that we need to have a universal healthcare system.