Do you support universal healthcare?

Epignosis wrote: Doctors in the US are essentially private businessmen.  They go to school and have to foot the bill themselves (grants aside) like most anyone else.  They have to invest money in beginning a practice.  Etc. What if, for whatever reason, people no longer decided to become physicians and nurses anymore?  Folks just decided the field isn't profitable enough to get into (or wasn't interesting- again, whatever reason).

Well, enjoy your next career as a Wal-Mart greeter or a fast food employee.
Seriously it must be nice to have the luxury to be able invest all that time and money in a career and just quit.


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Edited by Slartibartfast - August 30 2009 at 12:47

Universal healthcare is a no brainer in a civilised society, I would have thought...

Having grown up with the NHS, and having had short spells in hospitals over the years for trivial things, I have no complants about the service. The treatment my father recieved while dying with Cancer was `second to none. The same goes for my mother after she had a stroke. I've no complaints.

That f***ing Tory d!ckhead who recently went to the States and scared the sh!t out of the American people by running down the NHS, making reference to all the horror stories of people giving birth or dying on trolleys in the UK, should be strung up by his nuts and shot to ribbons! Take my word for it, please dont believe a single word that comes out of the mouth of any UK politican, especially a puffed little Tory sh!thead.

Bear this in mind; you will only ever hear the horror stories. Good news is no news as far as the media is concerned, and busy city hospitals in the US will have their own horror stories, under the current system. The NHS serves a huge population and is the one last institution that the British can be truly proud of.

Padraic wrote: I support the universe.

Wow, Atlas ain't got nothin' on you.

Absolutely, it's ridiculous to think otherwise. Non-supporting it is against Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

I support the universe.

It sounds like a good idea, but for a country (US) that already has horrible debt problems it seems like a poor time.

Negoba wrote: This is a no-brainer. Yes. But there are fools wiggling on the private insurers hooks and swallowing it whole. Makes you ashamed to be an American sometimes.

Of course, everyone on the other side must be fooled by some trickery, no logical person could possibly hold another viewpoint from you.

It does bother me a lot though that in the current health care debate in the US the republicans and opponents of the health care bill are just trying to spread lies and scare people instead of raising what I believe are legitimate problems with it.

Vompatti wrote: (And I don't think the student healthcare would do much good if I got run over by a steamroller. )

Wait, you haven't seen A Fish Called Wanda have you?  If you had your feet stuck in wet cement you just might.


Edited by Slartibartfast - August 30 2009 at 12:45

We Have a Healthcare system in Australia and if any government tried to remove it and replace it with a fully private Health System they would be thrown out. We pay at the last time I remembered is 0.75 percent Tax on your gross income. Now I will admit the public hospitals are not perfect but compared to most places in the world they are fabulous.

"I want everybody to have maximum care at the best price. And that's why I want the government out of it completely." - Dr. Ron Paul