I have listenend to both sides and you both have it wrong. I am
English and I have lived in this country since 87 so I have lived
under both systems. Both systems have their good points but I
think the system in this country is much worse. No one in
England is denied service. It may not be that you are not seen
quite as quick as you are in the States but of course your
immediate service here involves numerous tests to not help you
but to cover the hospitals ass when one of the hospital chasing
lawyers decides you and of course he, can get rich because of --
what ever he can dream up. By the time you finally get the
treatment you need that guy in England has gone home after
having the treatment that he needed and other than the terrible
tax he pays for it he is well and does not have to worry about
going into bankruptcy-. You have wonderful medicine,if you can
afford it or if you have a wonderful LOL insurance company which
will not reject everything at least once.-- So, go on, perhaps
the Government will bail out the insurance companies or perhaps
all the legal beagals that pray on our lives.
As for me, I am older than dirt and I can afford to pay for my
treatment but I am in the minority. Will your kids be so lucky?
Chrissie Farthing
On Fri, 7/24/09, Art Langston <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Art Langston <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: {Disarmed} [ercoupe-flyin] Social systems Was: Model
C or D
To:
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 10:04 PM
Well, very respectfully, If conservatives get to call universal
health
care "socialized medicine," I guess I get to call private health
care
"soulless vampires making money off human suffering-ism." It used
to be
that there some services and institutions like hospitals, the
fire and
police departments were so vital to our nation they were exempt from
market pressures, and it wasn't called "socialism". When did that
become the new patriotism? Ask not what you could do for your
country,
ask what's in it for Blue Cross/Blue Shield?
The problem with President Obama's health care plan isn't socialism,
it's capitalism. Because medicine is for-profit we have things like
"recision," where insurance companies hire lots of people to
figure out
ways to deny you coverage when you get sick, even though you've been
paying into your plan for years.
When I was a kid, if you broke your leg leg playing ball, your
parents
took you to the local Catholic hospital, the nun put a
thermometer in
your mouth, the doctor slapped some plaster on your ankle and you
were
done. The bill was $1.50, plus you got to keep the thermometer. Your
folks didn't have to file bankruptcy or sell your house because
you got
hurt playing ball.
Then, some Wall Street wizard decided that hospitals could be big
business, so now they're run by bean counters in some corporate
plaza.
In the U.S. today, three giant for-profit conglomerates own close
to 600
hospitals and other health care facilities. America's largest
hospital
chain, HCA, was founded by the family of Bill Frist, who perfectly
represents the Republican attitude toward health care: it's not a
right,
it's a racket. The more people who get sick and need medicine, the
higher their profit margins, so forget preventative care.
But what can we expect in an age where war profiteering is no longer
treated as a scandal and treasonous, but business as usual?
Well, last comment from me. Time to end this and get back to
Ercoupes. :-)
Art
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