i dont think medicine should be a business. i dont care if insurance companies lose money. but why are so many people rallying to stop this. i believe more people would chase their dreams if they didnt have to worry about health costs.
e.g. i could afford to travel and pick up small jobs without worrying about healthcare costs if i were to get sick or injured.
why should only the rich be taken care of? if other countries like Canada and the UK can have socialized healthcare, why cant we?
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People in the US really are full of crap about the effects of a system like the UK’s. Apart from the absolutely blatant malicious lies like people over a certain age can’t get treatment etc there are some ludicrous misconceptions about it.
The US is based on freedom of choice (I wonder how many people who use that argument in health care oppose it in abortion?). Having to decide whether to eat or take the medication you need isn’t freedom of choice! We have plenty of choice here in the UK. If I need a referral to a hospital I get a choice of which to go to. I could pick the one that would see me quickest, the one with the lowest rates for hospital infections like MRSA and C. difficile, the one with the best reputation in that particular field, the nearest, the one with the best parking or any other criteria I chose to apply. Not only that, I could also choose to get private medical insurance and bypass the NHS altogether. Brits on average pay several thousand dollars a year less for health care than Americans do, so that big saving would easily buy some private health cover. So that would be yet another choice thrown in!
Canada’s system is not perfect but I have yet to meet a Canadian who would switch places with Americans. Opponents of health care reform like to cite how Canadians are “forced” to wait months for various procedures but according to Canadians I’ve talked it, those are for elective procedures. The reason some Canadians travel to the US is because they don’t want to wait.
It’s pretty obvious some people have not had to deal with American insurance companies. Otherwise, they would know that people often have to wait often for weeks to see a doctor or get the insurance company’s approval before treatment can begin. They also don’t know that these companies often will delay or deny treatment because it cuts into their profits. They should read up on the story of 17-year-old Nataline Sarkesyan, the leukemia patient who was denied a liver transplant by her family’s insurance company. After a public outcry, Cigna reversed its decision and authorized the transplant but it was too late for her.