Will Universal Healthcare in the USA lower the quality of our Healthcare?

Rarely does government regulations solve anything. Check out what happened to gas in the 70s.

It depends - quality of anything is subjective. What we have now is choice - the individual has a great deal more choice than he has in other systems, and the individual can seek out what he considers quality. It's my Miles Davis CD analogy all over again. The government can provide something more efficiently than the private sector - there are a lot of reasons why it usually doesn't even do that, but it can conceivably do it, through sheer volume, by forcing everyone to buy the same model - - - but that benefits only those who would have bought that model if they still had the choice - - - the greater the difference between what you would have bought - or need to buy - and what the government forces everyone to buy, the more you're being screwed by the process. Since most people make different choices, generally speaking these forced-purchase programs work for the minority at the expense of the majority. Thus even if you can get around the waste, fraud and abuse, and all the other reasons why the government programs usually are far LESS efficient at producing the one item - it's also not a money or time saver for anyone but the people who would have bought that specific item - - - - the government could conceivably force me to buy In a Silent Way for $10 instead of the $15 it costs at Newbury Comics, but if you don't like Miles Davis, John McLoughlin, Herbie Hancock or Chick Corea, you didn't save $5, you're just out $10. And "afford" is a funny word - - it's driven as much by cash outflow as inflow - - - - individual plans are a few hundred per month. To anyone who says he can't afford that I have two words: cancel cable. "American" is also a funny word - and its definition for this purpose is far more certain. It means someone in the population within the borders of the US. That's what the Census Bureau considers to be an "American." Thus, of the 45 million "Americans" who lack health insurance, 20 million are illegal immigrants. And a national healthcare program is NOT going to insure them.

Some people will try to tell you that we are # 37 in quality of health care but that is false we are #37 in life expentancy, which really has nothign to do about quality of care, it has to do with our unhealthy living. I cant imagine wanting to go to school for 8+ years only to become a government employee with no future of having my own practice as a doctor. Then you would have people going to the doctor/emergency room for every little cough, it would back up, wait times would increase, doctors would get overworked. Its a downward spiral from there

It will lower the quality of our health care if you look at what the care is like in the UK, France and Canada. We have a care that many come to the US for and when we regulate individuals use of it and have doctors running from practices since they are not able to make a profit we will lose the best quality care on earth.

Yes. And anyone who has studied this issue will know that. why are rich foreigners coming coming to America if they're 'universal health care' is working so well?

I wish we could all have the same health care our elected officials get. They're sitting pretty with their health benefits, I don't see why the rest of us shouldn't get such coverage. Taxpayers already pay the politicians health care; where's the difference? Don't prices usually go down when bought in bulk?

Not sure, I'm more interested in discussing all options and trying to find a solution instead of turning the whole issue into government run health care for everyone or nothing done whatsoever, which is what this debate has turned into.

Well I think we should look at the health care system in the UK. Does it work?

That's just it, no one is left out of health care here! Universal Healthcare --- who will the doctor work for? YOU? lol! or the government?