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Originally Posted by Humble Janitor
I'd like a system where money is NOT the dominating factor.
If you are poor, middle-class or rich, it shouldn't matter. You get the same care either way and we have the potential to offer much better care than other countries with socialized medical systems. We're Americans and we're used to doing it bigger and better. Why not just give it a shot?
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Ya, That's how it is where I live in Canada. Michael Moore's movie "Sicko" got it right on how average Canadians view their healthcare system. We think it's great. Everything is free. And he interviewed a Conservative Canadian on the golf course in Windsor, and even that guy thought it was the best thing this country has ever done. The guy who brought free universal healthcare to Canada -Tommy Douglas - was just recently voted as Canada's Greatest Ever Canadian - and Douglas did that 30 or 40 years ago!
Dont kid yourselves - the rich and the corporations make huge amounts of money. There's enough to go around to pay for healthcare in America a few times over. Maybe they should switch some of their ridiculous "defense spending" money over to healthcare spending. Instead of using millions to research how to create a "gay bomb". Yes the U.S. reasearched how to create a chemical when dropped from the sky that made the enemy soldiers give up fighting and want to have sex with each other instead! Where's the sense in that?
And in Britain, they brought in Universal free healthcare right after WWII. Just when Britain was broken financially and physically, and they managed just fine. They even have a better system than Canada does when it come to healthcare. So America could easily do it if they just shift their priorities slightly.