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Originally Posted by cacophony
this isn't a crisis for the poor. it's a crisis for every one of us. if you think you're financially stable enough to not worry about healthcare, you're dead wrong. this is becoming more and more common, as the cost of healthcare rises and insurance carriers include more and more exception clauses in their coverage. when you deny the idea of universal healthcare, you approve of a world where the situations like the one described above are possible.
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And if you approve of universal health care blindly, without consideration to its actual implementation, by the same logic you could be very well be approving of
...a woman dying while waiting hours in a backed up waiting room
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-col...erg021011.html
...a woman waiting 3 years while living through excruciating pain to get a fairly standard operation.
...a man living in his house for a year because he had to wait for someone to patch the gaping hole in his head, for fear something would touch his exposed brain tissue
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/216280
did I mention there's no doctors available in toronto? like,
none.
and this brings it home, an independent study on universal health care up here in the north that concluded the following effects of universal health care, the
unfinished health care revolution
- Political leaders told the public they were decentralizing health care to bring decision-making closer to home. But, in most cases, they were trying to insulate themselves from the fallout of closing hospital beds, firing highly paid administrators and reining in spending.
- No one wanted to take on the medical profession, so doctors remained outside the system, operating their private practices on a fee-for-service basis.
- Major chunks of the health-care system – mental health and chronic care – were overlooked, leaving patients without access to a full range of services.
- No clear lines of accountability were set. Governments and regional health boards blamed each other whenever an unpopular decision was made. Patients couldn't figure out who was in charge. Taxpayers didn't know where their money was going.
My point isn't to prop up the us system as some success story. I'm merely surprised how uninformed my fellow americans are about universal health care. THey seem to see it as the mythical gum drop kingdom and they allow their presidential candidates to talk down to them accordingly.
Again, I'm saying its not the end of the road. Now that I'm a permanent resident of canada I get health insurance even if I think my boss is a pig and want to quit. No more hassle about pre existing conditions or being tied down to th "company store" model of health care. But then if I do get sick I might have to fly back to the states to get my needs taken care of before I like, die or something.