It's a toss up. Do you want the best goverment services like the nordic countries such as Sweden and pay 60%+ taxes or make everything private, place controls on pricing, and let us pick and choose what we want and need.
Why would a doctor engage in preventative medicine when it will cause them to lose a patient? Those ghouls couldnt be happier than to see a epidemic of heart disease. The way to solve the prblem is to put all doctors in jail. Allow them to see patients from their prison cell and release the doctor only when he cures one patient of something.....anything. The solution to healthcare will be accountability. Right now they have none and are robbing the American public blind.
Not at all. You can have hybrid systems for many services if you want. Of course, then you'd have have to pay the full load for private care if everyone else opts for a universal plan. Frankly, from what I have heard over the years the folks in Sweden have a great deal. Finally, the tax numbers you keep throwing out are "meaningless" in the context of a discussion about universal health care in the US.
Since when did health coverage become part of the Bill of rights? just thinking out loud here, but why is it: *People (and politicians) think its perfectly normal to ask that employers or the tax payers pay for health insurance? should they also pay their car,life and home owners as well??? * why is it we have so much emphasis on INSURANCE for health?? why not just have a stock pile of cash to pay for it like you do when you want to buy a home? *why is it that hospitals can charge $60.00 per TYLENOL tablet to my insurance due to my wife giving birth...yet in the brokerage industry there is a 5% commission cap???? *why is it people will easily pay 750.00 per month for two leased cars, yet bitch and moan that they have to pay for health coverage?
Thats because the Overwhelming Majority Of Americans are f-ing idiots. They will forever regret this if it gets passed. Absolutely the worst thing that could happen in the USA. The politicians are leading the lambs to the slaughter with the idea of "free" healthcare (with minimal tax increases). Let me tell you what we will end up with. Absolute worthless crap healthcare and HIGH tax increases. Do you think anyone who makes a decent living will ever depend on the shit service the government will provide? Is anyone freakin stupid enough to believe the "efficient" US govt. could provide a good health care system with all the politicians, lawyers, doctors and insurance companies all fighting for a piece of the stupid tax payer pie??? I will end up paying higher taxes AND paying for my own private healthcare which will actualy take care of me instead of sticking me in a 6 month wait list for a simple procedure. F*** Hillary and any idiot who supports this. We will all regret it. Anyone who supports this gets automatically voted against by me and any sane individual that knows whats really going on.
While I understand your preoccupation with obesity, that just shows the level of complacency the current system has engendered. Go to India or any other third world country and see what disease -- not being a pig -- does. I promise you obesity is not the reason why spending tax money on public health care is a really good idea.