I know this is going to burn like your weiner after sex with your dog but how about the crazy idea of taking some personal responsibility? You know, get an education, get a job and pay for healthcare yourself! Wild idea I know but how about not picking my pocket and stand on your own two feet? :shock:
Because I happen to live in a country that treats health care as a right to all citizens regardless of economic status.
Amusingly the US government spends more on health care per person than all universal health care countries do. Here's a pretty graph to illustrate the point.
This would seem to suggest that the private system is grossly wasteful and ineffective. What does it say when countries with the evil socialist system enjoy higher life expectancies than the US for less money?
You knowingly and willingly live in Canada and you think I'm retarded? Meet a mirror Corky.
I'm in a country with a higher standard of living, higher life expectancy, and more personal freedoms than yours.
America land of the free is more a slogan than actual truth.
I didn't say that the state paying for your healthcare expenses is "good". Now pay attention, I said that it's ridiculous to say that someone was poo-pooed and "sent home to die" because they did not have an HMO or PPO, etc. As I stated, I was in between healthcare providers (uninsured) and was treated as well or better than every other patient in that private hospital. There are programs for the uninsured with serious illnesses, I'm not saying a doctor is going to come to your house or you'll be living in the finest rest home but they cover your care and treatment. Believe me when I tell you, blood sucking HMOs are more likely to laugh evily and watch you suffer and die than a state or county run hospital.
And if your condition wasn't life threatening they would have sent you home.
You mentioned the county you live in paid for your expenses in this case. What level of coverage do other counties provide? Keep in mind you are living in evil liberal California where such bad socialist things are likely to be found.
All of that aside, seriously, if you incur $10,000,000.00 in medical debt declare bankruptcy, not a big deal, believe me. The medical establishment will get a big fat write off and you'll make it out alive.
And with universal health care that would never happen so your point is moot.
What happened to to that whole personal responsibility thing?
No insurance is free. It comes out of the pockets of the tax-payers to provide for those that cannot. Also, with free health insurance, the government can easily limit how much you get if for instance you smoke or are fat. Even with "free" health care, if youre a smoking tax-payer, youll get shitty insurance, while some free-loading immigrant gets better care then the tax-payer would.
LOLbertarian. :lol:
As I pointed out to Laker_Girl the US spends more on health care per person than countries with universal health care. Switching to the more effective universal system would suggest a reduction in overall costs.
I don't think I need to bother addressing the silly assumption that the US government would employ a LOL go be fat somewhere else policy.
And Canada can kiss my ass.
Canada and Britian's free health care is looking worse and worse as time passes.
How so? Our higher life expectancies would seem to suggest otherwise.
Wrong. Noone owes anybody anything. My money shouldnt be reallocated to other ppl. This isnt Mother Russia.
You already pay taxes that go to other people stupid. Plus everything you own is a result of the society you live in. You'd have fuck all if it wasn't for others.
I had no insurance until less than a year ago. I dealt with it. I didnt cry to other ppl to wipe my ass for me.
So you didn't have any serious medical issues. That burden must have been real hard to deal with.
