The rest of us should not be forced to pay for it when it does happen because you were to irresponsible to plan for it. Don't conservatives constantly bleat about personal responsibility? Do you wait until you have an auto accident to gat auto insurance?
I guess you are not a congress person, huh??? They have it all but don't really earn any of it. Its time to make congress remember they are no better than the average joe. lucrative salaries , pensions and healthcare for doing nothing for most of the year while undermining your constituents access to government benefits is wrong.
And what do you call it when the bills taxpayers get when thousands of uninsured people go to the emergency room after being involved in an accident or when they get seriously ill? Isn't that extortion too? I hate to say it but if you want to make me pay for your damn doctor bills , I am tempted to just say **** you, no insurance no service... SOL! But that would impact the poor more than those who can afford insurance but just don't want to spend money on it. The PPACA was the best answer for universal healthcare. It would be even better without the damn middle men raising the premiums to offset "losses" to pay for people who actually use their insurance to get healthy again. For that reason alone, I endorse socialized medicine and the expanded use of Medical practitioners and Nurses to augment doctor shortages to meet the demand increase. If a ARMY PFC or SP4 MEDIC is good enough to treat people in a combat environment, people wth those qualifications can treat citizens. That scenario is especially significant in the age of technology where a team of 10 or more MEDICs can be guided by one or two doctors via audiovisual means to perform outpatient procedures and some superficial surgeries. We just need to eliminate the leeches in the system known as health care insurers!Mandated insurance is extortion, fortunately the IRS Is no longer enforcing the mandate...
typical idiot response, made without thinking.
again with the idiot comment without thinking.And what do you call it when the bills taxpayers get when thousands of uninsured people go to the emergency room after being involved in an accident or when they get seriously ill? Isn't that extortion too? I hate to say it but if you want to make me pay for your damn doctor bills , I am tempted to just say **** you, no insurance no service... SOL! But that would impact the poor more than those who can afford insurance but just don't want to spend money on it. The PPACA was the best answer for universal healthcare. It would be even better without the damn middle men raising the premiums to offset "losses" to pay for people who actually use their insurance to get healthy again. For that reason alone, I endorse socialized medicine and the expanded use of Medical practitioners and Nurses to augment doctor shortages to meet the demand increase. If a ARMY PFC or SP4 MEDIC is good enough to treat people in a combat environment, people wth those qualifications can treat citizens. That scenario is especially significant in the age of technology where a team of 10 or more MEDICs can be guided by one or two doctors via audiovisual means to perform outpatient procedures and some superficial surgeries. We just need to eliminate the leeches in the system known as health care insurers!Mandated insurance is extortion, fortunately the IRS Is no longer enforcing the mandate...
there appears to be more countries that are not as happy as the U.S that also have socialized medicine, or was that fact not supposed to be pointed out.
So you admit the OP's title is bogus; there's no correlation between socialized medicine and a country's happiness ... or ...
What "liberal religion" ? Have you always been this stupid with your anger issues?
There are reasons for the current problems in the UK. Not least the government has a vested interest in introducing a privatised american style system in the UK.
That's not the reason Tommy. Yes the market isn't working, because we don't have a market.
You can't blame the problems in a system on Capitalism, when it isn't a Capitalist system.
We have a very very socialized system in the US.
What is the number one complaint from all the left-wingers? Cost. They don't complain about the quality of care. You don't see people saying treatment in the US is so bad, that they are flying to Pakistan to get treatment.
When they do surveys of medical tourists from the UK, what is the number one reason? Wait times. You wait for years to get treatment, which in the case of cancer or other illnesses can be lethal.
But when they do survey's of medical tourists from the US, what is the number one reason? Cost. I can get the same treatment for a few thousand, instead of $10 thousand, elsewhere.
So cost is the number one problem. Well why is cost so high? There are dozens of contributing factors, but the largest and most damaging is...... Government. Namely Medicare and Medicaid.
Both Medicare and Medicaid, routinely pay less than the cost of care. Since 50% or more of patients are gov-patients, that means the hospital would go bankrupt. In order to not go bankrupt, they have to charge a much larger price to non-gov-patients, in order to cover the loss from gov-patients.
See? As medicare and medicaid payments fall lower than the cost of care, the payments of private payers is increased to cover those losses.
The primary, number one, top of the list factor that makes health care so expensive in the US.... is government.
I could list you a dozen other causes to, like regulations, controls, price caps, everything... all government.
There are reasons for the current problems in the UK. Not least the government has a vested interest in introducing a privatised american style system in the UK.
That's not the reason Tommy. Yes the market isn't working, because we don't have a market.
You can't blame the problems in a system on Capitalism, when it isn't a Capitalist system.
We have a very very socialized system in the US.
What is the number one complaint from all the left-wingers? Cost. They don't complain about the quality of care. You don't see people saying treatment in the US is so bad, that they are flying to Pakistan to get treatment.
When they do surveys of medical tourists from the UK, what is the number one reason? Wait times. You wait for years to get treatment, which in the case of cancer or other illnesses can be lethal.
But when they do survey's of medical tourists from the US, what is the number one reason? Cost. I can get the same treatment for a few thousand, instead of $10 thousand, elsewhere.
So cost is the number one problem. Well why is cost so high? There are dozens of contributing factors, but the largest and most damaging is...... Government. Namely Medicare and Medicaid.
Both Medicare and Medicaid, routinely pay less than the cost of care. Since 50% or more of patients are gov-patients, that means the hospital would go bankrupt. In order to not go bankrupt, they have to charge a much larger price to non-gov-patients, in order to cover the loss from gov-patients.
See? As medicare and medicaid payments fall lower than the cost of care, the payments of private payers is increased to cover those losses.
The primary, number one, top of the list factor that makes health care so expensive in the US.... is government.
I could list you a dozen other causes to, like regulations, controls, price caps, everything... all government.
I will find some links for you when I get a minute.
Or, you can whine ...
