Or you could look at other societies where this healthcare issue has been resolved with much more successful results for "the people". If all you can see is "left-wing" versus whatever else you think is righteous, all you will ever see is two boxes everything must fit into. You and I simply do not share that approach, it is frozen in time, and has never operated in the manner you have bought into. I’m aware of the illusion you want me to believe in, I just don’t, that’s all. What I see in america is this:
Privatized gains versus socialized losses for the Wall Street/bankster class
Internalized profit versus externalized risk and expense for the “job creator” class
Socialism for the aristocracy versus laissez-faire capitalism for the masses
Yeah? Which society would that be? Greece? Venezuela? Perhaps France?
France's Health-Care System Is Going Broke
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France Fights Universal Care's High Cost
France in a state of economic emergency: Hollande
The system is going broke, and doctors are on strike, and taxes are up so high, the economy is faltering, cost are out of control, and the entire country is in an economic emergency, with unemployment at 10.5%.
That's your system at it's best.
Let me put it another way.... my parents church has an outreach program where they go to National Children's Hospital here in Columbus Ohio. My mother found this couple with their child, who had some strange illness. In their country in Europe, they were told, take your child home and enjoy the few moments you have left.
Basically, go home and die. Free health care. Totally free. This is what you call "resolved with much more successful results for "the people"?
Really? That's your idea of "for the people"?
They mortgaged their home, flew to the US, and they are paying to have doctors heal their child. He is expected to make a full recovery. Which system, your left-wing socialist free-care system, or the pay-for-service capitalist system, did more for "the people" here?
You say that's an isolated incident?
My son will die if he comes home from US - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
Another parent told to take their child home to die.
Here in Cleveland paying for treatment that will save his life. Perhaps that's anecdotal.
http://www.usnews.com/news/best-cou...dians-increasingly-come-to-us-for-health-care
The number of Canadians who choose to pay out of pocket for health care in the US, instead of getting 'free' health care in Canada increased 25%... and that's just those coming to the US, not including those going to other countries to pay for health care.
This when supposedly Canada ranked higher in health care, than the US.
Due tell... please explain why people in a system that is supposedly "for the people" and free, are choosing to borrow money against their homes, to come to the US and pay for health care that I guess is not "for the people"? Please give us your insight on this.
The UK system is in distress. Doctor strikes, funding problems. The list goes on and on.
And we haven't even gotten to the fact that in nearly every comparison, you have a better chance of being treated and cured in the US, than any of these other countries.
But by all means. Which country would YOU point to, as having the superior health care system?