So far I haven't really seen anything approaching a cogent argument in favour of the current American health care system, which seems to me badly deficient in many ways.
Read the transcript or watch the video for an inside look at how for-profit health insurance actually works in the USA. All I can say is that I'm very, very glad not to live under that kind of corporate tyranny. In fact I don't understand why anybody would choose a private corporation, which is accountable to nobody but its investors, over a government-subsidized plan, governments being accountable directly to their citizens and voters.
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Originally Posted by Documad
So you can't go to any doctor you want. Thanks for clarifying.
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I'm kind of confused by this. What point are you trying to make here? I would think it obvious to anyone that there are practical difficulties in giving every single person access to every single doctor, but nobody in this thread has suggested that, anywhere.
Moreover I think saz makes a good point - when it comes to costs and what Americans might have to give up in order to provide affordable health care to their own people, the Military-Industrial Complex has an awful lot of potential. Even at only 4% of its GDP the USA spends almost as much on defense as the rest of the world put together. It's very bemusing to see people get all rankled at the thought of their hard-earned money being spent on the health and welfare of their friends and neighbours, while they seem quite complacent at the thought of their hard-earned money being spent to bomb the shit out of poor brown people on the other side of the world.
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Originally Posted by RobMoney$
no, just socialist
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What a bunch of crap, Canada's as capitalist as anywhere else. Confine your one-liners to topics about which you might know something.