"The difference is they also add long waits." Do your homework before you post. I've done academic research on this. Your statement holds true for England certainly and somewhat for Canada, but it is NOT a universal truth. Take a good, hard look at the Netherlands' system and get back to us. Germany and France have good care as well. Sure they all struggle with financing and so do we. We currently spend more on healthcare than any other nation on earth and get less for it. I have a very good gig and very good coverage at this point in my life, I'm happy with it. I haven't always been so fortunate and it can cost a lot more than just the personal effects of delayed treatment. It can seriously affect your finances, credit, relationships and more. Also, if you think you (we) aren't ALREADY paying for other people's care, you're dead wrong. Where do the uninsured turn? The Emergency room. Who pays for that? We all do through higher premiums caused by higher cost of care. Let's just do it right and look out for each other. I'm all for free enterprise and making a profit but we have a serious problem when money is more important than people.
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:04 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In a message dated 9/23/2009 11:23:58 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Guys, I almost never forward things like this and NEVER to my entire > address book. This is different. The USA profit-driven healthcare provides > most of the latest medical solutions that all the social medicine systems > use. The difference is they also add long waits. We don't. What happens > when the great engine of medical advancement is stifled by a government > takeover? > > I wont demonize our president, Pelosi, Frank, or any of their ilk. *Just > watch the video*, and think about what FREE ENTERPRISE has done to move us > forward, and what will happen without it. > > Half a million have already seen the John Stossel investigative TV report > below. lets make it everyone. > > > The PROBLEM with Free Enterprise Health Care, a sometimes wonderful > thing, is that it works only for those who can afford to pay for it. The > MOTIVATION for free enterpise health care is profit. We've been fortunate > that any innovation at all comes from it AFTER the Chem companies and > providers have settled into a comfy, profitable position. As a paradox, the > profit motive limits further investment, as the funds for research must come > from profit. > > All Govt "health care" wants to do is to find a means to cover those who > can't otherwise get coverage or afford to pay for it. If the Republicans > truly WANTED to do something good for the country, they'd develop a plan > that would be accepted by both sides, but of course, as they represent the > existing health care industry (big chem cos, insurance cos, etc), they won't > lift a finger to change the status quo; they just complain about the > Democrats' efforts. > > I'm presently the oldest member of my family...EVER, and I'm only 57. > > The reason? None of my family line ever had health care. Everyone that > went before me died from the LACK of health care. Only myself, at varying > times, since I did not follow the tradition of working in construction or > jobs where employers didn't offer health care, have lived this long. > > The AVERAGE income earner must struggle to pay for health care. It is only > the upper middle class and above that can afford the premiums. The first > priority is housing, a HUGE expense, the food, and then, after the car > payments and clothes, comes education and then health care. There simply is > not enough money in the average family income to cover everything. > THIS is what a domestic-thinking Congress should address... Instead, > everything that affects people on a daily basis gets pushed aside. If we > have money to fund wars, we should have money to save lives. > > Congress should stop arguing about health care and do something about it. > If Congress had to operate like a business, it would find an acceptable, > workable solution to the problem NOW. > > Jerry aka LGO > > > > _______________________________________________ > Miatapower mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower > > -- Anyone who uses the terms "irregardless," "a whole 'nother" or "all of the sudden" shall be sent to a work camp! -Stewie Griffin
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