Do you think citizens in other countries can trust their governments, and that it's the American government that's flawed? Or is it all governments?

 

Citizens of other countries trust their governments less than we do here, on average. They actually have control over their governments, and the governments listen to the people because they weild their democratic power. In our country, we don't. We are affraid of the government (again, on average...not everyone is of course...).

I don't think socialism is good for everything, the free market works for most industries. But for health care it simply doesn't work. We've shown that over the last few decades. It's time to try something different...other countries have systems that work, so why don't we try something they're doing? Oh yeah...that would make us commies...


The biggest similarity between anything a sterotypical communist nation like the USSR or China did/does and what we do is use government tax money to fund a war machine that hops around the globe trying to change other countries to our form of government...

 

Well I thought it would because she was covered by Medical, but the hospital felt as if maybe the coverage wasn't good enough or they might not get paid or whatever. Not to mention when she was sick for to long she was eventually dropped from Medical aswell as being turned away by a hospital that can give you temp coverage and a payment plan but somehow still turned her away. So in effect I think it has to do with a facet of health care that could use some fixing, maybe its not Universal that would help but it does point out a definative issue with healthcare that could use a change.

Wether its doctors negligence or horrible insurance coverage policies I dont know for sure but, either way its not right.

 

Again, I never made any suggestion that this was the solution, only that if given a choice between the two options of our status quo or having higher taxes to support a universal coverage, I'd really rather not have to worry about even the chance that I might become bankrupted if I am in a car wreck requiring extended hospitalization.

Like I said there are no easy answers, but things need to change as the current program is simply not working for enough of the population.

 

At least they try to fix things at the state level ie: Medi-Cal.

 

Medi cal will still drop you if they think the illness will be to costly, happened in my family.

 

This defies the logic of why we have medical school students suffering through med school and there residency. Why do they do it, mostly for the money. Do you think we'd have people committing suicide over there MCAT scores if there was no money in it? Why is it that whenever a very technical operation is needed it is always in America? Because we happen to have the best doctors in the world. That doesn't mean we have the best health care but we definetly have the best doctors. And why, because there's so much competition. Take away competition and the quality falls through the floor. If someone made a bill that said no matter how a car is built all of them will $10,000 brand new how good of a car do you expect? That will happen to health care to if it becomes a blanket, government system.