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Question: What kind of system would you most want the Affordable Care Act to evolve into?
#1
Beveridge Model
 
#2
Bismarck Model
 
#3
National Health Insurance Model
 
#4
Other (please elaborate)
 
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Total Voters: 62

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Filuwaúrdjan
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« on: April 13, 2014, 11:08:04 AM »

I voted for the Canadian model,  but perhaps I shoul've voted for the British model.  My problem with the British model is that private health care is still allowed, which I think is totally wrong. Rich people shouldn't have better access to health care than poor people.

In practice all it tends to mean is a shorter waiting-time for routine operations and a guaranteed separate room (as opposed to being on a bay) when hospitalised. The actual care received is identical. People with private health insurance tend to have it so that they can brag about having it, because it shows that they are upper middle class and so on.
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2014, 11:22:03 AM »

Named after William Beveridge, the daring social reformer who designed Britain’s National Health Service.

Except that he didn't. The Beveridge Report recommended that - after the war - the government ought to create a 'National Health Service', but the details of how he wanted it to operate were rejected by the postwar Labour government and replaced with something more overtly socialist (and as it happened much more practical).
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