Look, I have no intention to argue with some one who constantly uses "for f's sake" or "****". My reasons are: Free health care causes you to make appointments months ahead.
Just thought I'd put my two sense in guys .. haha. I'm afraid you've been guzzling too much properganda up there. I'm from Aus, we have universal healthcare, today I booked an appointment in the morning, for 2 in the afternoon. My doctor was great and probably also earnt a great salary. I got all my shots updated, a checkup and some antibiotics for an annoying little throat bug. What did it cost me? Not one cent. You can have your own doctor, you're not assigned one (I constantly hear people ramble about this). Worst case scenario, I would have been given an appointment tomorrow if they were too busy. If you are on a public waiting list for an operation, you have all the right to go to a private hospital and pay for it yourself. Or you can wait a bit, and have it for free. The point is, those
without the means to afford private healthcare have other means to obtain it.
Best of all, if I cut off my finger, I can go straight to the emergency room, and they won't ask for my insurance details, nor will they charge me to put it back on.
I think we need a bit of thought here. Companies in America are
profiting off your illnesses, as hospitals are. There are specific experts hired by health insurance companies whose prime concern is to make sure they find a loophole in your health insurance agreement. Perspective? Hospitals want you sick, and Health Insurance companies don't want to pay you. They are businesses, not there for your benefit, but there to profit.
As a little side note, universities (or colleges I guess, over there) work well on a similar system. I'm at university, and I haven't had to pay a cent. Instead, the goverment gives uni students a HECS loan (which pays
all fees) that I don't have to pay back until I earn a salary which is deemed to be
high middle class over here. And even then, it's a small amount every week. I get a centrelink payment (like welfare) so I can attend uni fulltime and still eat, live, etc, without working hecticly through my degree. ... I can only really see benefits here?
Anyway, I'm not a communist by any account, but I'm sick of universal healthcare being painted this a terrible, socialistic notion. Perhaps you need to sit back and think who's painting that picture, and why...
