Originally Posted by ArwenEvenstar
I am NO expert on this issue. But I know that some Americans tend to think of socialized medicine as this practically perfect system. "Everyone gets free health care! We need that here!" But as mentioned in the above post from Australia, in socialized systems you can often have long waiting lists! And only those who can afford to pay privately or have a private health insurance policy can get immediate/prompt care. Does this seem fair? The wealthier get better care than the poor. Hey...this sounds similar to the complaints about our US system of private health care! See...there is no perfect system! Socialized medicine and privatized medicine both have problems.
I used to live near the Canadian border and we sometimes had Canadians come to our US hospitals to pay privately for care because they were on a several year long waiting list for the procedure in Canada.
And Americans seem to complain a lot about taxes... But do you know how high the tax rates are in these "cradle to grave" countries?? Most Americans would probably flip their lids. Socialized health care isn't free...they pay for it through high tax rates.
I personally prefer out US private system.
Anyhow...I better stop writing because this topic can easily head off into political issues....
Socialism leads to what you might have in PRISON NO FREEDOM and your 3 square meals a day.
As an American champion freedom and true principles of freedom as rediscovered by the founding fathers. 2 founders have warned..
Those who give up freedom for a little security deserve neither and will end up with neither. This is not an opinion but rather historical fact that continues to progress even here now in the good ole US of A.
Promised and promoted government security is a myth and will destroy freedoms of our future and has been placing our children into further bondage and un payable debts.
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