In another thread, a poster brought up the Singapore system. It seemed very well thought out. I'm a republican too, but our health care is a disaster. Honestly, I think our political system is too fractured to come up with a government solution. I'm almost always against big universal plans, but I'll admit they are not impossible. The problem is you need to be unified to come up with something halfway intelligent like the Singapore system, and we are definitely not that.
Whenever American propose socialized healthcare, we act like we're the first country in the world to do it. We come up with zany ideas on how to do it.
There's plenty of countries we could study and find out what works and what doesn't. We could create a great healthcare system based on those models, but instead we just play this stupid game.
Except that we're the only country that's just like us.
Who would you like us to study and apply to our situation? Some tiny European/Scandinavian country with a fraction of our population and almost total homogeneity? Some other country with a vastly different culture that has no concept of individual freedom such as American citizens take for granted?
Be specific.
Homogeneity and culture should have NOTHING to do with healthcare - unless your a xenophobe and a racist.
The scale of economies may be something that should be taken in account in modeling an American system, but given the number of countries that have successfully implemented socialized healthcare, we can certainly create a successful system.
"Should have nothing to do with healthcare" - because why? You said so?
You can get over right now this desire to carelessly brand anyone who doesn't think your wishes imposed upon 300 million other human beings as "greedy", "xenophobic", "racist", or whatever other random insults you want to throw out in a lame attempt to make us feel ashamed for not living up to YOUR high standards . . . as though any of us give a fat rat's ass about having the likes of YOU think well of us. Hold your breath waiting for that.
Culture has EVERYTHING to do with what a group of people decides their priorities are, and how they're going to achieve them. And homogeneity has a lot to do with what kind of culture that group of people has.
The United States has a huge population, and it's very diverse. There are not a lot of things that are universally considered to be important priorities in the United States, and of those few things, there's even less agreement on how to achieve them.
Put bluntly, Americans don't think the same way that Norwegians do. And what works for Norway, a country with less population than Los Angeles county, wouldn't necessarily work for the United States. You can't just take an idea that works great for 5 people and apply it to 5 million people and expect it to have the same effect.
So no, there is no "given the number of countries that have done it, we should be able to" here. Name me a country that is comparable to the United States. Do not name me a bunch of different countries who collectively STILL only add up to a fraction of the United States.
And do not ******* tell me that we have to just blow off and ignore the differences between our people and theirs because YOU, oh mighty wise arbiter of the universe, have decided that those differences are "bad" and "immoral" and therefore don't count.
You arrogant ass napkin.
