Sigh.
Start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...th_care_systems_compared
Also this:
http://ats.ctsnetjournals...i/content/full/84/5/1435
Or how about this:
http://www.reuters.com/ar...ne/idUSTRE5530Y020090604
Also good article on how fucked your system is:
http://www.economist.com/...amp;source=hptextfeature
Finally, there will of course be statistical outlier in any system. I'm certain you could find some person who wasn't given proper care in Japan,
Sweden or France too.
However, do you REALLY want to start going down that road? I can do that, if you want. I can start listing every single fucking case of American Health care
outright REFUSING people care. Not delaying it. Refusing it. I can cite dozens, maybe even hundreds of cases where your
"HMOs" or other insurance programs have screwed people out of what they justly paid for. I can cite dozens of case (and I'll invite them over
personally, so they can say it to you here) where people where just outright refused medical insurance period. I
personally know human beings, friends of mine who would be dead or crippled for life if it weren't for Canadian health care. My grandfather just got out of
the hospital two days ago after having major knee surgery. He is basically shit poor (being a retired coal miner whose pension vanished thanks to assholes). He
was scheduled for surgery, admited, had his surgery, had his recovery and was released and is feeling much better in under three months. He paid not one dime.
Do you have any idea how expensive health care is in your country? I can qoute people who have had to pay upwards
of $4000 for a 20 minute ambulance ride. It is quite posisble for a treatment like major heart surgey to run upwards of
$15,000,000 (that's FIFTEEN MILLION). Do you have that much money just lying around? The only hope for 99% of Americans is to hopefully get cadilac health
insurance from their job but even then most job paid plans are shit compared to what we have up here in Canada. Before you start quoting wait times at us start
looking up articles for people in the states who are outright refused medical care period.
Could our system be improved? Hell yes. Is it better than yours? By a wide fucking margin.
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Epsilon
Start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...th_care_systems_compared
Also this:
http://ats.ctsnetjournals...i/content/full/84/5/1435
Or how about this:
http://www.reuters.com/ar...ne/idUSTRE5530Y020090604
Also good article on how fucked your system is:
http://www.economist.com/...amp;source=hptextfeature
Finally, there will of course be statistical outlier in any system. I'm certain you could find some person who wasn't given proper care in Japan,
Sweden or France too.
However, do you REALLY want to start going down that road? I can do that, if you want. I can start listing every single fucking case of American Health care
outright REFUSING people care. Not delaying it. Refusing it. I can cite dozens, maybe even hundreds of cases where your
"HMOs" or other insurance programs have screwed people out of what they justly paid for. I can cite dozens of case (and I'll invite them over
personally, so they can say it to you here) where people where just outright refused medical insurance period. I
personally know human beings, friends of mine who would be dead or crippled for life if it weren't for Canadian health care. My grandfather just got out of
the hospital two days ago after having major knee surgery. He is basically shit poor (being a retired coal miner whose pension vanished thanks to assholes). He
was scheduled for surgery, admited, had his surgery, had his recovery and was released and is feeling much better in under three months. He paid not one dime.
Do you have any idea how expensive health care is in your country? I can qoute people who have had to pay upwards
of $4000 for a 20 minute ambulance ride. It is quite posisble for a treatment like major heart surgey to run upwards of
$15,000,000 (that's FIFTEEN MILLION). Do you have that much money just lying around? The only hope for 99% of Americans is to hopefully get cadilac health
insurance from their job but even then most job paid plans are shit compared to what we have up here in Canada. Before you start quoting wait times at us start
looking up articles for people in the states who are outright refused medical care period.
Could our system be improved? Hell yes. Is it better than yours? By a wide fucking margin.
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Epsilon