Doesn鈥檛 National Health care insurance just guarantee high profits?

Doesn鈥檛 National Health care insurance just guarantee high profits to pharmaceutical companies and CEO鈥檚 that own health care facilities?
Currently the national AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) guarantees the drug industry high fees because American taxpayers pay for it through funds designated for HIV. IE: for Sustiva Americans are charged $980 per person per month for this drug alone and yet Bill Clinton lobbied for it to be sold to Africa for $80.00 per person per month based on the drug costs $40 per person per month.
National Health Care insurance guarantees payment even when poor quality care is give and now that mal practice is being contained, regardless of what happens to patients, profit is guaranteed.
Based on this analogy, I feel that national health care is just a way for some politicians to provide favors to those who make huge donations for their campaign.
Please agree or disagree and explain your answer. For those just seeking 2 points with no true understanding of this issue please save my time and yours by just putting a few 鈥???鈥?marks.

Sway_27: If Medicare is such a great program, why did congress opt to give themselves an elite plan that tax payers pay for and congrssmen no longer pay FICA taxes because of this. If it truely was a good program, in 1994 congress would not have deserted it!
Also no congressman must liquidate all their assets to get health care!

yes, there should be reform

Yes, the government has alreay prove that they cannot successfully "negotiate" lower prices for anything.

Obvioulsy you're too thick to understand my answer. Or maybe you guys are just so used to calling me out that you cant see it when I agree with you

Maybe GOVERNMENT Health Insurance would do that, but the plans now being proposed involve mandatory enrollment in a PRIVATE program, and the Insurance Corporations will refuse to pay exorbitant bills and the Health Providers will keep in line.

It all depends on how it is structured. Everything gets negotiated and with NHC, there is one party doing the negotiating for everyone.

1. The US has the most expensive healthcare system in the world. It is almost twice as expensive as every other developed nation. This is largely due to administrative costs which account for 19-25% of healthcare costs, and up to 34% at for-profit hospitals.

2. Other than South Africa, America is the only developed country in the world that does not provide healthcare for all of its citizens.

3. Yet, the US ranks 26th in infant mortality and 24th in the number of healthy years a person can expect to live - putting America鈥檚 healthcare system in the company of Cuba and Slovenia rather than Canada and Western European nations.

4. Forty countries, including Cuba, Taiwan and most of Europe had lower infant mortality rates than the U.S. in 2004.

5. And, despite ludicrous right-wing anecdotal claims of high dissatisfaction among those who live in countries with universal healthcare, the reality is that, with the exception of Italy, Americans are more dissatisfied with their healthcare than are the citizens of every other developed nation, including England, France, Germany, and Canada. Moreover, US doctors spend less time with patients that do doctors in other nations.

http://dll.umaine.edu/ble/U.S.%20HCweb.p...

http://pub.ucsf.edu/newsservices/release...
WHO ranking of healthcare systems:

1 France
2 Italy
3 San Marino
4 Andorra
5 Malta
6 Singapore
7 Spain
8 Oman
9 Austria
10 Japan
11 Norway
12 Portugal
13 Monaco
14 Greece
15 Iceland
16 Luxembourg
17 Netherlands
18 United Kingdom
19 Ireland
20 Switzerland
21 Belgium
22 Colombia
23 Sweden
24 Cyprus
25 Germany
26 Saudi Arabia
27 United Arab Emirates
28 Israel
29 Morocco
30 Canada
31 Finland
32 Australia
33 Chile
34 Denmark
35 Dominica
36 Costa Rica
37 United States of America
38 Slovenia
39 Cuba
40 Brunei
41 New Zealand
42 Bahrain
43 Croatia
44 Qatar
45 Kuwait
46 Barbados
47 Thailand
48 Czech Republic
49 Malaysia
50 Poland

http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthra...
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Is that the reason the government run Medicare program is the most efficient and effective healthcare system in America?

I share your concern. GHW Bush had a health plan proposal, then Clinton had one (or Hillary's if you look at it that way) and now Hillary has her own proposal. All of these plans had something in common--buying health insurance for -some- uninsured through existing health insurance corporations at their going price. In other words, they all have the 'incidential' effect of enhancing the profits of the existing health insurance industry.

What most Americans want, and they say so again and again in polls, is a 'Canadian Style' single-payer plan. This means eliminating the commercial insurance companies and their overhead and profit. Medicare is an example of this, the government acts as the insurer and overhead goes from 25% to 1 or 2%. We only have Medicare in the first place because the insurance companies didn't want to insure the elderly or chronically ill. So -we- do that for them. If we could simply expand Medicare to cover everyone in the country we would immediately save tens of billions of dollars a year.

Republicans like to call this 'socialized medicine', but it isn't. The health care providers are still private and commercial, and they still compete, just as they do now under Medicare. Socialized medicine is where the doctors work for the govt. and the govt. owns the hospitals, as with Britain's National Health Service. But calling it 'socialized medicine' shows two things, (1) that we can change peoples' opinions about anything by calling it 'socialist and (2) that rank-and-file Republicans don't really understand what socialism is to begin with.

President Clinton also proposed a program that would have made vaccines available to all the children of America at public cost. He showed how this would be cost-effective because we would save cost of caring for the kids who got sick from preventable diseases like TB and tetanus. The drug companies would have made a fair profit. But the proposal was killed by the drug companies! They realized that they could make a bigger profit selling vaccines to 80% of kids at the going rate than 100% of the kids at a 'fair' profit. And these vaccines were developed at public expense!

It just goes to show how our version of capitalism is warped in the US. The highest priority in our health care policy should be HEALTH, instead it is profits.