If you managed to rule the world, what’s the first thing you’d change?

@Penny since the government made Healthcare mandatory in the us prices have skyrocketed. Have you ever had great service at a dr or hospital as well as bad services. If you have do you think both groups deserve the same pay or pay based on their performance?

Now i do agree with the introduction of plant and natural drugs being offered and studied. I also thimk drug companies profit should be limited and many of yheir tricks should be put in check where they inflate a 50 yr old drug.

I truly believe healthcare was far cheaper and better before government started interfering. If government healthcare were the answer. Then you would be looking at examples such as cuba.Venezuela, china, who currently already have this system.

Government never makes anything more efficient. How many people are excited to go to the department of motor vehicles? Or call and get help with social security, or from the irs.

@dale74 yeah but the current model is buying into commercial healthcare not instituting its own

@Penny yes, but if you go back 40 years, the commercialization was not there. Drug companies were not allowed to advertise on TV. Your drugs, we're determined between you and your doctor. I think your doctor patient relationship would be far improved if it was a direct pay where if you go in for services you pay for them immediately or you work out a payment arrangement with the doctor office. If you pay cash at my doctor you get seventy five percent off your bill. Means my two hundred dollar, check up, it's not down the fifty dollars, which is what my deductible is if i used insurance.

@dale74 i think the main problem is the cost of malpractice insurance. with my government healthcare there would be no suing the doctors. either you take the risk with them or go elsewhere. not saying abolish commericial doctors just offer government healthcare. not for free though unless soemthing could be figured out for that. maybe make the profiteering medical doctors or companies pay. at least for the low income people who cant afford it at all.

@Penny so what happens when a politician is caught being corrupt most of the time nothing. If a doctor does a surgery and messes up the patient dies, you have no recourse with the government Doctor.

@dale74 better than no doctor at all. at least they tried.

@Penny i would rather pick my dr as it is now. I had surgery and had one of the top three in my state. When your life or the life of someone you love is at risk you want the best not just the one the government assigned you.

@dale74 the government wouldnt be assigning them. itd be your choice. not everyone has medical insurance. there's medicaid and medicare but not everyone qualifies who needs it. i dont know how good the affordable care act services are but theres a definite need for more affordable healthcare. i dont think itd be a difficult proposition unitl your getting into the more state of the art complicated surgeries. i mean im not suggesting the government healthcare would compete for that. but for basic stuff itd probably be helpful to many people.

eta- we dont get cash discounts in NJ for medical services i dont think

@Penny if you have medcare you do not get all the services or surgery you need like in private healthcare

@dale74 i think medicare is the same except it only covers 80% i think. i guess it depends. it def doesnt cover all meds. are you handing out private healthcare? why should the government or taxpayers pay for private healthcare and their exorbitant prices for everyone to profit from when it has the power to offer many of the same services itself? (hopefully paid for by the recipients somehow lol)

@Penny there are some surgery it will not pay for quality of life only life or death. Like appendix or gallbladder surgery

@dale74 well, luckily i am not in charge of the world so i can just talk on SW instead of really have to think about htese things lol. still, why cantthegovernment take more charge of healthcare instead of having big pharma run the place.