Where is US healthcare going to be in 10-20 years? Intuitive souls..make your predictions?

Question

Where is it going to go? Will it become less accessible? More expensive?

Will Doctors and other medical professionals get paid more or less?

Will malpractice increase and recourse become more difficult for patients with real losses and damage?

Where will our dollar be?

If we stopped paying athletes millions for their team affiliation and put that money toward other economic needs, could it be better?

Are the economic priorities misguided?

Where will healthcare be in 10-20 years?

Answer 1

Down the c**p chute. Healthcare in the U.S is the worst than any other country, well most of them.

Answer 2

the only thing i'm positive about is that healthcare will NOT be provided by employers in twenty years' time. whether the government will take up the slack remains to be seen.

Answer 3

Are you not paying attention? The global economic system is falling apart.  Capitalism is not sustainable and climate change will force us to change our ways or we all die.  Making decisions based on profit rather than what is the best for humans is what has us in this mess.  We have to change how we think to undo the mess.  Doctors and athletes will be paid less in the future but janitors and medical assistants will be paid more and yes health care will be universal because we will be living by higher priorities and higher values other than greed that rules the way things are done now.

Answer 4

I think we will have a good working universal health care system by then.  at least i hope.

Answer 5

Here is your 411 healthcare......

As each generation produces offspring that takes the culture one step closer to "it's your fault not mine" attitude.......another generation that increases it's collective premis to not accept responsibility for your own actions.......yet another boost to the population totals that will continue the path to further reach a hand out and eat out of the system instead of putting into it......what's left for health care?  Simple.....the more people that jump on the health  care free ride band wagon.......the more people health care will need to pay for it.  

A perpetual cycle of supply and demand.  You demand to free health care.....I work hard to generate enough tax payer dollars to pay for it. The sad part of it is......I go to the doctor about once per year for a check up as I take care of myself, you on the other hand, go once a week, because your blood pressure is postal from all that deep fried food you eat from McDonalds, then sue McDonalds because they didn't inform you that getting fat is a side effect.

I've never got a ticket for speeding, but you......sue the city for planting that light pole you rapped yourself around doing 80 on a wet surface but claiming you only had one beer.  But as long as it's free to you and someone else has to pay for it, keep drinking, keep taking everyone to court because you're too d**** dumb to realize you DO NOT TAKE A BATH WHILE USING A CURLING IRON.  Oh.....it warned you on the label, but I guess it was'nt  translated into enough languages because you.............no F******* habla!!!!

THAT'S WHERE I SEE HEALTH CARE IN 10-20 YEARS!

Answer 6

I'm for cutting the athletes' ridiculously massive paychecks and give back to the community. Pretty soon, no one will be able to afford health care and the sick people will turn to their grandmothers for natural home remedies. Also, with the rising gas prices, emergency ambulances will charge you 50% of their services before taking off the the hospital. Others will "walk it off" to the hospitals because they can't even afford one gallon of gas. Social security money for the retired will be used up because of the baby boomer's that were born post ww2 will have depleted it all. YEEHAW -___-

Answer 7

I think to repurchase their office, politicians will offer a clinical type of health care and request all businesses to adhere to a PPO style of care. I visualize this much like the hodge-podge of drug testing facilities we have today as a condition for employment.

By way of example, I would expect a dentist would require 26 months advance appointment. I would expect specialists like eye doctors to want 5 months advance appointment. Heart surgeons, around 36 months advance notice.

But, such health care will not be truly universal. There will be a "private" or first-tiered level of service that is supported with tax deductions, so the self-employed and those holding elected office can be subsidized.

Answer 8

i don't mean to offend anybody or anything like that... i myself am american, but i do believe the following statement is more than half-way true...

the US is spiraling downwards straight into h**l... i'd be more worried about what's to come within the next 2-5 years...

i dunno... i have a bad feeling about all of this...

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Answer 9

The day will come when we all have to take care of our damned selves and the people who can't are going to be effed. I know it sounds mean but...it's cyclic. Governments and nations, it's all cyclic. I think it will happen in just about 20 years.....yeah.

Answer 10

The movie "Sicko' doesn't paint a rosy picture.

Answer 11

Based on pure facts, universal health care costs 1/3 of what our washed up system costs per person. That is mainly because of preventive health care being much cheaper then a sick person. Unfortunately the discussion about it is purely emotional and nobody cares about facts.

To the Dollar, I think it will stay about where it is with the Euro, maybe a little lower, but not much. The euro is carried by Germany, which is technologically and socially so much advanced compared to the USA, that we have lost the race for good. We have no product to offer on the international markets, anybody wants, because our companies don't invest in research and our government only cares about the military.

Education in the USA sucks the big one and we are losing out to former third rate countries like India.

Lucky, we have the biggest military in the world and always can opt to bomb up a couple more countries.