On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:20 PM, b_s-wilk<b1sun...@yahoo.es> wrote: > Single-payer did NOT prevent you from getting the care you need. Managed > care did. Be informed and you can be better served.
When I hear all the railing against a single-payer system, with the attendant calls for maintaining a system in the United States that is singular in the developed world, I wonder why ours has to be different from all the others? Why "uniquely American," which is the term I keep hearing? If our system of insurance is the best in terms of the care being provided, why does the rest of the industrialized world pretty much have a different system? We are talking here about democracies, where citizens have the ability to change what does not work. If those systems in other modern and developed nations are so horrible, why have they been so widely adopted for so long? Why have they not been thrown out considering the horror stories one hears from our insurance companies? Since it is recognized that there are big problems associated with our current system, why the digging in of heels to keep it as it is? Surely, when one applies a bit of logic to the equation, money is the root cause of retaining the status quo. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
