In Canada, the single payer system is funded by general tax revenues, not a separate fee.
Not a fair comparison. Canada has what maybe 30 million citizens? The US has 350 million plus 20 or 30 million illegals.
And the US is the richest country in the world. We should make hospitals, not war.
The irony is, you seem to be oblivious to the contradiction.
You point out that the US is the richest country in the world.
You previously point out that many of these other countries have socialized health care and pensions and so on.
Are you missing the connection?
This country was founded on a Capitalist system. That is what got us to being the richest country in the world.
Now you want to change the system, to a system that all these other countries have been using, which we surpassed.
This is what is crazy about people like you. You have a system that allowed our country to become the most powerful and wealthy in the history of the world, surpassing nations that have existed for hundreds, and thousands of years longer than us.
Wealth does not just "magically exist". Wealth is created, or destroyed, by the system that is operating in a country. If you change the system, you change how much wealth there is.
There isn't a single example, where adopting more and more socialism, results in people being more and more wealthy.
If you don't evolve, you die. It's that simple. other capitalist countries care about their fellow citizens, you don't, that's the difference.
But the facts don't fit your claims.
Why do you think that people come to the US from all over the world, for care?
Let's just take Canada. You realize that in Canada, they have a for profit company called "Timely Medical", which specializes in one thing... allowing people to pay money to escape Canada's health care system.
Timely Medical | Timely Surgery at Affordable Prices
See, our system is the more caring system. You people are the ones that don't care. As long as you get to impose your views on America, you really don't care how many people die waiting for care.
What do you think the VA wait list scandal was all about? The VA system is free government run health care. Yet they were just randomly deleting people from wait lists, because their system cared. People were waiting years for life saving treatment, and dying before getting it.
Los Angeles VA: IG Report Says Almost 100 Veterans Died On Wait List
That's your system. That's your 'care'. That's the reality of socialism.
My parents are part of an adopt a patient program from their church. They take care of, provide food meals, and take children and young adults out for meals and trips from Children's hospital.
What people like you don't know, is that people around the world, send their kids to pay-for-service care here in the US. The last girl my parents adopted, was from Australia. Her parents couldn't afford to be here with her, so she came to the US by herself.
She was told by the doctors in Australia, that they could not help her. Effectively, go home and die. That's the 'care' you people on the left provide.
Healthcare: A Tale of Two ERs
And if all that evidence is still not enough, how about reading from your own democraps.
Here's the background. A member of the DNC was working at the DNC Convention in 2008 in Denver. She got sick, and wanted to be checked out. Her first stop was a Denver clinic. This was a government funded free care clinic.
"Urgent Care" is a misnomer, since this place was not "urgent" nor did they care. We walked into a room full of about 40 poor people, most of them coughing, sneezing, crying, wheezing, or just slumped over in their chairs and wheel chairs. Most of them were Spanish-speaking or elderly. Some of the women had infants in strollers with them. They were there because they were sick and had no place else to go and no childcare to keep the baby safe from the germs in that room.
It was like being in a 19th century tuberculosis ward, as described by Charles Dickens. The room was under construction, there weren't enough chairs for all the people, there was no water or food available, and very little ventilation. If there was air-conditioning, I sure didn't feel it. "Days of Our Lives" was playing loudly on the TV in the corner, but no one was paying attention to the fully made-up Marlena Evans in her glam hospital bed. We were too busy being sick and ignored.
At 4:15, a woman came out of the examining room, hysterical. She said to the front desk that she had been there for 5 hours and had not been seen by a doctor yet.
In my hoarse, low, nearly-gone voice, I told them it was appalling that all of these people had to wait so long. The young male desk attendant just shrugged.
After this terrible ordeal, she went to a private clinic.
I arrived at 4:50, to a clean, well-lit, empty waiting room. In contrast to the Denver Health Urgent Care facility, it was air-conditioned and had vending machines for candy, soda, and water. I checked in, noticing that the sign-in sheet masked the names of everyone ahead of me, so my name was the only one that showed. No HIPAA violation there. I settled in to take some notes, figuring that I would be there a while.
They took my insurance information, called my insurance company, and told me the visit would be $35.00. At about 5:00, a nurse called me in and took my vitals. About five minutes after she was done, a very nice doctor came in and did a thorough exam, took a history, and talked to me about my experiences at Denver Health. He spent at least a half hour with me, going over every possible symptom, even some I hadn't thought to bring up. We were in a closed room, where no one else could hear him ask these questions.
He listed to my chest a few times, and didn't hear anything that sounded like pneumonia, but wanted to get a chest x-ray to be sure. He left me to change into a paper gown, and got the x-ray technician. I had 2 x-rays, they were developed, and I was sent home with 2 prescriptions within an hour of arriving. He confirmed that I did not have pneumonia, but a nasty case of bronchitis, that was made worse by the altitude. He drew me a map to the nearest pharmacy, gave me his card, and told me to check in if things didn't improve.
Now of course, this woman being a Democrat, of course blamed Republicans for her terrible gov-care, and wonderful private care.
But that is the reality of what you and your fake "caring" offer to the public.
That second private care experience she had, was what we on the right-wing offer to the public.
We want everyone to have that good experience, where you are treated, and treated well, and given dignity and respect.
You want everyone to be treated like crap, waiting for hours, by people who don't care.
You call your version of health care where people are treated like dirt "caring" because it's free. But it isn't free. Everywhere in the world that has equally garbage care like this, and like the VA waiting lists, pays more than double the taxes we do, to have that terrible "care".
There is nothing caring, or good, or moral about your position. Ours is the good and moral position, where people are treated well, and given good care.
https://www.amazon.com/Lucky-Dog-Being-Veterinarian-Saved/dp/1770893512?tag=usmb-20
Again, this is the 'care' you offer to Americans, a system like Canada where a Dog is given better care. In fact, I've heard of Canadians that showed up at veterinarian clinics with cash, and put their own name down as the pet, to get an MRI scan.
Can you ever imagine that happening in the US? Of course not. But that will be the reality if you and your left-wing socialists are able to impose your "care" on the rest of us.
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