...the right to enjoy the same general health and lifespan as a person of great wealth, with no more or less conditions set based on my net worth.
Don't we all. But who pays?
I could write reams on private versus public health solutions, but let's just look at it this way:
In all our experience, across a wide range of human needs and wants, which of the two--competitive private sector or government--has the better overall record of providing those things the way we want them?
That the current system--a ghastly kludge of controlled private and half-baked government--needs work is obvious. But at least we need to decide which direction we want to go.
When I was born (I've seen the hospital bill), health insurance was for dire emergencies, and normal care could be paid for out of pocket. What happened?
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- Anybody else think it's ironic that Castro is dying from crappy medical care?
- re: Anybody else think it's ironic that 41 million citizens of the richest country in the world don't have health insurance? (n/t)
- Thank you Laurie
- Are 41 million going without needed medical care?
- Nope, but it's not efficient.
- McDonalds is efficient. Would you like Heart bypass surgery with your McChicken Sandwich? (n/t)
- Yep. They only get emergency care. Cruel, sort of like war, huh. (n/t)
- Inefficient is a word often associated with national health care programs
- re: Inefficient is a word often associated with national health care programs
- The only ones who understand American healthcare are American conservatives?
- Nope, but it's not efficient.
- Ironic, no. Par for the course, yes.
- 80 years old? Smokes cigars? Drinks like a fish?
- I do. Apparently he didn't follow advice. Friends who have visited Cuba - - -
- re: Anybody else think it's ironic that 41 million citizens of the richest country in the world don't have health insurance? (n/t)