In reality there are waiting lists, sure. But only for scheduled treatments of non-life threatening ailments that do not cause great discomfort for patients. I see that Hogberg included fitting of hearing aids and catharact ops to his stats! The reason for these waiting lists are of course that patients with immediate needs (cancer, heart attacks, etc) have higher priority and rightly so if you ask me.

Frank: What are these great differences you speak of? Are you suggesting that it is somehow easier to provide cheap effective health care in colder climates? What in your mind would be the best way (better than a true single payer system) to improve health care in America. Surely you are not happy with the way things are?

FUNNY …. His mother was an African-American maid.

“Sweden’s so great!” Gee—-all the USA has to do is move everyone to Alaska! It is so laughable when the “brilliant” compare the USA with Sweden and other such places when, in reality, there are so many differences only a fool would try to do so.

Mr. Cain’s point: Try waiting in a line, when you’re sick. I have, with all the silly paperwork, regulations, etc. Not much fun.

OweBama or your job. You decide. I have. Shellacking II, Nov. 6, 2012.

http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA555_Sweden_Health_Care.html

“For all Swedes who needed an operation in 2003, slightly more than half waited more than three months (see Figure 2).”

From a personal perspective I have nothing but positve experiences with Swedish healthcare. There is no red tape, no bureaucracy and Doctors have complete authority regarding treatment. This is proof enough for me that a single payer system can work well for patients and also be more cost-effective.

This being said, I do understand that “Obamacare” is nothing like our system but rather a patchwork trying to make the best of a bad situation. I see that there is infact cause for concern regarding the overall effectivity of such a system.

Well anyway here’s my question to all you opponents of the introduction of a single payer system.

Do you have a better solution?

The Medicare ACOs are obviously the beta version.

Just as they did with the Prospective Payment system, the HHS bureaucrats will expand them to Medicaid (where two-thirds of the newly insured will wind up under ObamaCare) and then every other government health care program.

Likewise, ACOs are now voluntary, but that will change in due course as well. The government already controls 50% of the U.S. health care market. If ObamaCare remains in place, that figure will be 75% by the end of the decade.

And, by the time ObamaCare is completely implemented, the private health care industry will have all but vanished. So, anyone in Cain’s situation will be subject to the forces described in the article.

And, BTW, your use of the word “millionaire” as if it were a synonym for “child molestor” tips your class warfare hand. That Cain has (through an enormous amount of hard work) become wealthy is not bug. It’s a feature.