What is your opinion on socialized health care versus privatized health care?

"I believe that the basic concepts of socialized health care and privatized health care speak to a range of patients. Some people express their love for socialized health care because, although they pay a higher tax rate, they are not caught in an expensive whirlwind when they face illness. Privatized health care, on the other hand, can offer significantly shorter wait times, which is very important for those with a potentially critical or debilitating illness. In my ideal world, a system would be put in place with the benefits of both systems."

While this question asks for your opinion, you should avoid an offensive answer or showing a personal bias. It's best if you provide an answer that appeals to both sides while not appearing wishy-washy.

Socialized medicine allows most people to have adequate access to medical care. The tradeoff on that is longer wait times and possibly lower quality care. Privatized health care enables higher quality care but marginalizes some segments of patients.

"This is a complicated question; both privatized and socialized health care have their merits and their shortfalls. At the end of the day, I believe everyone should have access to basic medical care."

"Simply stated, my opinion is that both models are means to provide society with medical care. Each model has advantages and disadvantages for both patients and healthcare providers. My goal is to provide superior care no matter what model is adopted in our country."

"I think that there are pros and cons to both systems. Socialized health care improves access to care for people across various socioeconomic backgrounds, but can result in longer wait times. Private healthcare can be quicker to access, and can allow access to expensive, state-of-the-art innovations, but often results in higher costs to patients, and can be cost prohibitive to some. Neither system is perfect, and my aim is to provide high quality care to my patients regardless of which system I am in."

"I think most would agree that the United States healthcare system as it currently exists with a mix of private and government payors using different pricing and payment models is not working for the majority of Americans. I believe that people in the US deserve access to affordable, timely, and high quality basic medical care and I do think that could be achieved using both private and single payors if aspects of our current system were changed slightly. Some of those changes may include rules regarding the necessity for any care plan to offer affordable basic healthcare and preventive health coverage and downside risk for any health systems providing substandard care, as opposed to say the current Medicare Fee-For-Service model."