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Originally Posted by Schneed10
I work for a Health System in Philadelphia in the finance department. I'm not going to get into a big thing, but suffice it to say you know nothing about the business. Socialized healthcare results in horrible standards of care.
Healthcare in the US is some of the most expensive in the world, but it's also BY FAR the best.
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You're right. Government control is NEVER better than control by the private market. It takes away competition and therefore lowers standards and stops striving to appeal to customers.
Last week, I heard a story about a woman in Canada who was pregnant. She was having discomfort and went to the ER, only to be sent home and asked to come back the next day since she wasn't dying. She went home and went into labor, only to lose the baby in her own bathroom because the hospital turned her away and she had no access to doctors.
That's only a single example of the mess that the socialists have made in Canada. Sure, they say everyone has healthcare, but it's the worst in the world. There's a 6-month wait for any non-life threatening surgery, which causes a lot of people to suffer and too often die while waiting for the government-controlled hospital to come up with funds to treat them.
Beware of Hillary Clinton. She wants us to be like Canada.
It's also a myth that "every American needs healthcare". Every American DOES have healthcare. You won't be turned away by a hospital and if you call an ambulance, they'll come. Even if you don't live here, whether you're a visitor to the country or an invader of the country from Mexico, you'll be treated. What the socialists want is FREE healthcare for every American. First of all, it won't be free. Your taxes will go up a LOT. Secondly, you really shouldn't expect the government to pay for things like cosmetic surgery. If the government takes over the healthcare in our country, it will be devastating to the quality and availability of care. European nations and Canada who have taken the market out of healthcare and tried to fund it solely with taxmoney and politicians' rules have become dangerous places to live. There's a reason so many people come to the USA for surgeries and healthcare from foreign nations, we have the BEST in the world. As long as competition and the free market push it, it will remain so.