IE we need Joe McCarthy. I agree
Yeah, tell Charlie Guard what a great deal he’s getting with “universal” healthcare.
Rich country???
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Good one, we are TRILLIONS in debt FOREVER.
Because when we kept the government out of healthcare, we had a state-of-the-art medical care system that was not only the envy of the world, but used by every foreigner that could afford it.
Because Universal Healthcare SUCKS?
Because we had the best healthcare system in the world before Obamacare was rammed down our throats as a way to get to single payer!
The non-market components of our health Care system drive costs up. We do NOT have free market health care, especially for people over age 65.
Another problem is that about half the adults here are FAT and they would rather take pills do deal with their pre-diabetic and diabetic conditions, rather than get a little exercise or significantly change diet. Any catastrophic health plans should do what life insurance plans do, namely charge higher premiums for the obese.
And to point out that government is not your keeper from birth to death is too harsh. That each person has his or her responsibility to take care of themselves is too unkind.
And thus the mess we are in. Nation on the way to bankruptcy but we want to be taken care of and it is ok to be slaves of government.
We love free lunches and can do whatever we desire to do. That is America today.
This reads like it was lifted wholesale from The Daily Worker.
Not dependence.
Because our Founders knew something like that would eventually destroy the nation they risked it all for.
By the way, the United States is the only country, rich or poor, who has a Constitution and Bill of Rights. Why don’t they others up their game and follow suit? Why should we lower ourselves
The author forgot to mention the third reason how it keeps costs down. The government decides on when to stop providing health care... i.e Charlie Gard....
Because Government running ANYTHING makes that thing suck.
As the freest capitalist society, we knew this. OR- we used to know this.
The reason we are the only rich country without universal health care is -OUR CONSTITUTION-.
If the country wants universal health care, we should change the constitution to include it.
There is no way that the majority would vote for universal health care. That is why the demoRATS had to hurriedly pass zerocare at Christmas with not one republiRAT vote.
SO much wrong in so few words...
What a load of crap. While some of the factors listed in the article are valid, the author leaves out the most important factor of all: the number one reason our healthcare is more expensive is that Americans subsidize the universal healthcare of all those other nations.
We pay more for meds because other countries institute price controls. Same thing for everything else in healthcare.
What people will tolerate from top down governments is not something that Americans will tolerate.
Shit like this is why Trump won.
Obamacare has been very successful in performing its primary purpose. Destroy the US healthcare system, replace it with the worst bureaucratic mess of a system you can devise, and soon the sheeple will beg for socialized medicine.
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College friend of mine is an attorney in France. About age 60 as am I. About a year ago she fell and broke her ankle. It was misdiagnosed/mistreated. Now she’s confined to a wheelchair and may never walk again. Having to work from home. The most they’ll give her for the pain is Tylenol. She’s having to smuggle Advil. After years of her telling me how much better things are in France - the food, the wine, the food, the wine, the food, the wine - I’m so biting my tongue every time I talk to her.