Vivian Paige has a post on healthcare that has drawn a number of comments supporting her call for universal healthcare. A good example is a post from a person with supposedly good insurance who complains that it takes a while to get
to see a physician. One should ask exactly how adopting universal health care would fix that. On the day after universal health care is adopted there will be no more physicians than existed the day before. There will be no more appointments to be had then there were the day before. Now at least if an insurance company has a panel of physicians who don't serve their patients, the insured can choose a different insurance company or doctor. Under universal coverage there will be no different insurer to go to. Can't say as that would be an improvement.