What does population have to do anything??? If smaller countries can take care of all of their people's basic needs with such a small pool of resources, we should be able to do it ten times better with our large pool of resources. Again, do you really advocate the alternative? The status quo of profit-based "disease care" isn't working. It never will work for anyone except insurance and drug companies and their shareholders. Are you admitting that you are more supportive of corporations' profits than the American people?
What an honest perspective you have!
Well, honest in the sense that one must come up with said perspective were one as woefully uninformed and misinformed as you are.
Were it not for the internet, Amazon.com, the USMB, and an ability to read and write...then one could almost excuse you.
Unless this is, for some unclear impetus, a purposeful misreading of the situation.
1. "smaller countries can take care of all of their people's basic needs." But didn't you just state that population has nothing to do with 'it'?
And who determines 'basic needs'?
What, exactly are those 'basic needs'?
2. You have assumed that healthcare insurance fits the definition of 'basic needs' it appears. I would debate that. Make your argument.
3. Smaller countries...such as? Would you include the EU, which avoids such expenses as protecting itself, leaving that to the US, thus obviating a defense budget.
And which of your 'smaller countries' invests in the kinds of medical testing and experimentation that gives the world the drugs that you object to paying for?
4.And which 'smaller countries' are the ones that 'take care of all of their people's basic needs' are you in the process of moving to? You're not? Why is that?
5."...profit-based "disease care" isn't working. It never will work for anyone except insurance and drug companies."
Imagine, if you are as wrong about every important aspect of your life as you are about this...wow!
"In 2007, national health care expenditures totaled $2.2 trillion. Health insurance profits of nearly $13 billion make up 0.6 percent of that. CEO compensation is a mere 0.005 percent of total spending."
FactCheck.org: Pushing for a Public Plan
Now that you have read this, if you ever talk of 'profit-based' healthcare making huge profits, then you would be, to use the catch-phrase of the left, a liar.
6. "...corporations' profits than the American people?"
You can't be so brain-numbed as not to realize that corporations are the American people!
American people own stocks, belong to unions that have pension plans invested in the market, etc. Here, check this out:
"Mutual funds, index funds and pension funds (including union pension funds) own about 52 percent of Exxon Mobil’s shares. Individual shareholders, about two million or so, own almost all the rest. The pooh-bahs who run Exxon own less than 1 percent of the company.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/business/02every.html
So, to review, you, it appears are one of our 'perpetual victims' and America-haters who treat ignorance the way pigs treat mud pools.
