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Originally Posted by wilsowilso
Let me ask you a simple question. Do you have health insurance? Oh wait. I'll answer for you. Of course you do. That's the problem. Obviously not a problem when you have access to the health care system. It's a great system with lots of great doctors. This country needs to protect absolutely everyone with regards to something as basic as healthcare IMO.
Ask yourself. What if you weren't covered? What kind of country would do that to someone?
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In my condition the doctor would have done pro-bono work with people that had life-threatening conditions like the one I had. I'll concede though that there is a problem and it's a shame that so many people are without health insurance. However spending billions upon billions of dollars for an inefficent system that we will never be able to get rid of all while eliminating the private sector in favor of inefficent government programs is not the answer. It's got to be somewhere inbetween.
It takes 19.5 weeks to see a specialist in England and thats after waiting weeks to see a practicioner who in most cases will refer you to a specialist. In fact England has gotten so bad that people take vacations to India and Africa to get medical treatment. Canadians from Toronto are flocking in drones to Buffalo, and it's not to see the Bills. Theres also people in England who are not being approved for possible life saving treatments because theres a chance they're going to die anyway, so the government doesn't want to pay for surgery that might want to help him. Not saying that it doesn't happen in the private sector but this has been a hot topic across the pond.
I had a seizure back in June (I know I'm a mess) and due to the current health system I was able to see a Neurologist the next day. I have also had other problems with my head as of late and thanks to the current system I can arrange an appointment within a week.
National Health Care has not proven itself and once we commit to it it will be virtually impossible to go back. On top of all this one area that will suffer is the quality of doctors. Part of the reason people become doctors in this country is the profit potential, when the government runs things the thought of spending thousands upon thousands of dollars to go to medical school for a job that won't pay nearly as well as it did before will be a lot less attractive to young people who usually choose a career in main part because of the profit potential.
One of my best friends parents left Russia to start a practice here because the quality of the Socialized Health Care in Russia was abysmal among other things.
Then what happens when you get shitty doctors? You get not only shitty inefficent treatment that the doctors won't be able to keep up with due to the number of patients they'll have to see but the research for diseases like AID's and Cancer will experience a drop in quality.
Now to close I'm not saying fuck the people without health insurance. However at the same time asking the government to run health care is like asking Paris Hilton to marry you. Sure she looks good (to a good amount of people) but does she have any personallity? In the end theres got to be a fair balance between quality and quanity, but in a weird way Wilson I agree with you. Anyway lets shoot for a health care system that looks like Tina Fey. Sexy and smart (No Sarah Palin pun intended). Not Paris Hilton who is best described as pretty and dumb. At the very least we should shoot for an Alizee health care system.
Health Care for All. Love, Alizee