Don't say that, everyone in America knows that socialized medicine is the downfall of humanity. This is because the Profit Motive Makes Everything Better (tm).
Which explains US religious TV. Give your money to the evangelists, and they can pray you well again.
The insurance guy needs a new tailor. With his sort of money he should be getting his suits from Saville Row. That Blazer/Trousers combination's never going to be the thing excepting in the bar on a golf course. And that tie....ugh. For fuck's sake, when even a Democrat dresses better....
1. There is plenty of evidence that socialized health care doesn't work and hurts people. I can get some if requested.
2. Did anyone see where this bill was expanding too? I believe it was to families that make 4x over the poverty level wouldn't have to pay for their children's health care if it had passed.
1. I'd like to see this evidence, and I'd like to know what the comparisons are as well.
For example, if we take Cuba and its medical system and compare it to a country with a similar GDP but no socialised medicine we find the disparities are all one way, in Cubas favour.
If however we accept life expectancy as a reasonable discription of the health of a nation, please explain to me why the US (little or no socialised medicaine) is 29th on the list and France (the most effective socialised health service in the world) is 5th. And every major European country has a greater life expectancy than the US. It can't all be down to the gun laws and you chaps shooting each other over the slightest cause.
Correction, this years figures are 8th for France, and 29th for the US. But Sweden, France, Canada, Italy, Liechtenstein, Spain, Norway, Austria, Germany and the UK all rank above the US, and all have some form of socialised medicine. Weirdly enough Jordan is above the US too.
Comments 36
Reply
Reply
Give your money to the evangelists, and they can pray you well again.
The insurance guy needs a new tailor. With his sort of money he should be getting his suits from Saville Row. That Blazer/Trousers combination's never going to be the thing excepting in the bar on a golf course. And that tie....ugh. For fuck's sake, when even a Democrat dresses better....
Reply
(The comment has been removed)
2. Did anyone see where this bill was expanding too? I believe it was to families that make 4x over the poverty level wouldn't have to pay for their children's health care if it had passed.
Reply
For example, if we take Cuba and its medical system and compare it to a country with a similar GDP but no socialised medicine we find the disparities are all one way, in Cubas favour.
If however we accept life expectancy as a reasonable discription of the health of a nation, please explain to me why the US (little or no socialised medicaine) is 29th on the list and France (the most effective socialised health service in the world) is 5th. And every major European country has a greater life expectancy than the US. It can't all be down to the gun laws and you chaps shooting each other over the slightest cause.
Reply
But Sweden, France, Canada, Italy, Liechtenstein, Spain, Norway, Austria, Germany and the UK all rank above the US, and all have some form of socialised medicine.
Weirdly enough Jordan is above the US too.
Reply
It isn't better, I would say its on the same level of the American system.
http://www.angelfire.com/pa/sergeman/issues/healthcare/socialized.html
Reply
Leave a comment