no, I am saying in universal healthcare, you will get poor or no healthcare if you are poor and you will get good healthcare if you are rich. You will simply shift around who gets marginalized. For example: If you have a country that aggressively hounds, say, educational debtholders - because, maybe the nation decided to socialize educational debt. How long will it be till the bureaucratic machine calculates the bottom line and decides to use the system to redflag people and those people are effectively forced to avoid the government healthcare system. It could be anything else, say, "child support deadbeats". Or "illegal immigrants".
If you think that there will be an effective firewall between the two systems, I've got a bridge I want to sell you.
>Access to life saving treatment when required, as required, access to free hospital and cheap/free out of hospital medication
What happens when that medication is fundamentally uncheap, like herceptin, in New Zealand? Sure, herceptin is contrived, because that's a patenting issue. what if it's discodermolide, which doesn't exist in more than ~10 g quantity in the universe and is rediculously expensive to manufacture? Who gets/who doesnt?
Ultimately, no treatment is life-saving. We all die. Which ones are worth it? Who makes a valuation on life? How long until we find a hyperexpensive drug that prolongs the life of a politically-connected child with an orphan disease, and people begin to question, "why is this person's life subsidized", but not mine?
