People on both sides of the aisle are using incorrect terms, such as "uniquely American", "Canadian" and "British" to describe our current health care, and health care to come.
The premise is that "American values" point to one form of health care - private insurance.
Dr. Allan S. Brett says that when politicians use the term "American values", they are assuming all Americans have the same values. They are also assuming these values mean the same thing to the different people. Freedom could mean freedom to choose what health plan a person wants, it could also mean freedom from worrying about being able to afford health care if they became too sick.
Choices of physicians and where to go to the doctors are increased in a single payer system, because there are no insurance restrictions.
In the past twenty years, patients have been more and more able to get whatever test or procedures they want done. Doctors think less about how effective they will actually be, and a lot of money is wasted.
Dr. Brett says that one uniquely American thing about our health care system is that we deny coverage to a portion of our population.
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