driveby
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- Sep 6, 2008
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We already have universal healthcare, just a really, really bad version of it. Everyone can be treated in the emergency room. We don't let people bleed to death on the street here. Not yet, anyway. So the rich get great healthcare, and the poor get no healthcare until they are at death's door. Does that sound like a good way to run a society? No, it doesn't. The ironic thing is that every other Western democracy has a single payer system, and they pay HALF per capita what we pay for healthcare. Why? Because they don't have to pay liability lawyers, insurance companies, and Big Pharma. There are inherent cost savings with a single payer system. The Germans have had one since 1886!
With a single payer system you would still pick your doctor, and your doctor would still own his practice. There would just be one insurance company, and that would be the government.
but that government can still say ....sorry we are not going to cover your disease...treatment is to expensive....
Wrong. NO ONE CAN BE TURNED AWAY FROM THE EMERGENCY ROOM.
And you know what the most expensive kind of healthcare is?
THE EMERGENCY ROOM!!!
The other Western democracies are much smarter than we are on this issue. A society that tries to make money off of sick people is totally fucked up.
Ask Natasha Richardson what she thinks of it ........