No, your list proves that the places we have right now with public health care are doing better than the places that have private health care. It doesn't necessarily show the true potential of any system.
I don't consider the US system to be fully private, because so much of the money does come from the government.
Somehow, I doubt you'll hear Rush going off on the inherent evils of the private system. However, I never said they were inherently anything. What I was saying that those are the things I find them more likely to be due to what is involved. And what I've seen in other cases suggests that when you have a privately run organization that gets a very large portion of it's money from the government, you are likely to get the worst of everything. (CIETC seems to be a pretty good demonstration of this.)
-Morgan."Mikuru-chan molested me! I'm... so happy!"
-Haruhi, "The Ecchi of Haruhi Suzumiya"
---(Not really)
I don't consider the US system to be fully private, because so much of the money does come from the government.
Somehow, I doubt you'll hear Rush going off on the inherent evils of the private system. However, I never said they were inherently anything. What I was saying that those are the things I find them more likely to be due to what is involved. And what I've seen in other cases suggests that when you have a privately run organization that gets a very large portion of it's money from the government, you are likely to get the worst of everything. (CIETC seems to be a pretty good demonstration of this.)
Quote:Incorrect. Private businesses are first accountable to their customers. If they don't provide the quality that's expected of them, they'll lose their customers to someone who can. There's no reason this should work differently for health care than for any other service.
The difference is that public system are accountable to everyone and private systems are accountable only to their shareholders.
-Morgan."Mikuru-chan molested me! I'm... so happy!"
-Haruhi, "The Ecchi of Haruhi Suzumiya"
---(Not really)