I lived in Canada for three years. There was major concern over health care fraud. Why? I mean everyone's covered, right?
A friend's 27 year old wife died after a miscarriage because they used drugs and didn't have a laser or fiber optic camera to find the bleeding and stop it.
My secretary's mother fell on the ice in March and smashed her shoulder. They bound up her shoulder, and were still "considering" what to do in June, when she went to doctors in Rochester, NY and they told her she would require extensive surgery to break bones that had begun to knit in the wrong positions.
Do not get sick on Ray (sp) days. ALL the doctors close up shop on the same days. The Prime Minister of Ontario wanted all doctors to close a set number of days each quarter to control costs. He didn't come up with the idea of them all closing on the SAME days; they did that.
I cannot imagine the U. S. Government doing ANYTHING efficiently. Actual costs will skyrocket. And the poor souls who pay taxes will take it in the rear again. What about the "poor"? I don't care. It's called natural selection. Besides, it is against the law for a hospital to refuse care for any reason, so why does anyone NOT have health care now? Just because they do not have a regular doctor so they can get a temporary handicapped sticker does not make me lose a wink of sleep.
"Certain" candidates are just buying votes again. Welfare revisited.