Universal healthcare: coverage does not equal access

Universal healthcare’s dirty little secret - via the Los Angeles Times.

What these politicians and many other Americans fail to understand is that there’s a big difference between universal coverage and actual access to medical care.

Simply saying that people have health insurance is meaningless. Many countries provide universal insurance but deny critical procedures to patients who need them.

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The real danger is that our national obsession with universal coverage will lead us to neglect reforms — such as enacting a standard health insurance deduction, expanding health savings accounts and deregulating insurance markets — that could truly expand coverage, improve quality and make care more affordable

DON’T jump on the Michael Moore healthcare bandwagon just because you watched this horribly one-sided film. At the end of the day, I truly believe the more you learn about UHC, the more you’ll see how it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. (And to add the marketing angle . . . the choice of the word universal by politicos was highly intentional).