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  1. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    This group (or at least this thread) on this forum is not for social networking. We are discussion a serious topic, concerning one of the largest segments of our economy, and its policies have serious...

  2. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Let's see what it costs to live in Florida. The base sales tax rate is 6%, plus counties add more on top of that, and there are taxes aimed at tourists on top of that. You pay a 6% sales tax on...

  3. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Yes, we really should. I became more interested in the nuts and bolts of the system when a participated in a patient advocacy program. Physicians organizations get involved in the political process....

  4. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    No, I was implying that a nurse doesn't have much access to health care economics, etc. on the job, unless they chose to pursue it, and I explicitly said that undergraduate nursing education focuses...

  5. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Based on objective measures, such as the WHO's, that is true. It's been true for a number of years. (Digression: Look at the rapid progress they made in hand washing a few years ago. Within a year,...

  6. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    This is to realmaninuniform, who was obsessing over the question: It is irrelevant. You need to not worry about the person, and refining your ad hominem attacks, and concern yourself more with the...

  7. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    A state failed at implementing universal health coverage, so therefore, universal health coverage is impossible? Tell that to every other industrialized nation. And tell it to Massachusetts, which has...

  8. Talked out of nursing by others and myself....

    37 °C replied to radicalsenseofhope's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    You home school a 10- and 12-year-old? Who does the instructing? If you do, there it seems impractical for you to pursue a degree full-time. And you won't be cut much slack if you have to deal with...

  9. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Back to the original topic... To those who who argue for the existence of natural rights, either derived from nature or a spiritual source: You must start with axioms. Those axioms cannot be logically...

  10. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    According to your religion, unregulated enterprise will always do the best things for the citizenry — what's best for GM is best for the country. Their fiduciary responsibility, as private...

  11. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    You really love those anecdotes. Yours is a straw man. Why don't you compare the the healtcare systems of industrialized countries to ours? Look at their per capita costs, outcomes, and accesiblilty....

  12. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    No, my scholarly friend, you are prejudiced. You said this: Do you deny saying that? What percentage of the uninsured do you think are the working poor, who can't qualify for Medicaid? As soon as...

  13. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Please go back to page 18 and look at the list. There are 48 countries ahead of the U.S., among them Cuba, Germany, France, Spain, and Canada. Can you explain how the size of the country itself causes...

  14. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    If you're such a scholar, then you know that your personal experience, anecdotes, and prejudices don't cut it. That is all you've presented. You still haven't put up a single reference to back up any...

  15. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    What they usually don't want to recognize that that we can't afford our current system, universal care works well or extremely well (compared to ours) in other industrialized nations, and we already...

  16. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    You might enjoy reviewing John Locke's and Thomas Hobbes's writings, but here, you're playing a rhetorical game. If you're arrested, do you have the right to a speedy trial? the Sixth Amendment...

  17. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    These countries have lower infant mortality rates than the U.S., from the next lowest to the lowest: Faroe Islands Northern Mariana Islands New Caledonia Hungary Taiwan Greece French Polynesia Canada...

  18. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    What do you think happens to infants who have no access to health care? They just shake off illness? You're a recent immigrant, so you have no idea of the U.S.'s history of healthcare. Programs such...

  19. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Our current healthcare system is failing, and without reform, is on the road to disaster. Take a look at the ever-increasing portion of our GDP it consumes. The number of uninsured has been on the...

  20. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Sticking to the subject of healthcare, the VA system is doing a good job now of providing efficient health care, though some politicians who claim to strongly support the military want to cut...

  21. Night shifters - ever experience this?

    37 °C replied to beeker's topic in General Nursing

    That is a good start. That is also a good idea, especially if you can coordinate it with your schedule (i.e., get outside as soon as you wake up in the afternoon). Have you considered light therapy?...

  22. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    All U.S. residents have the right to a speedy trial. You're paying for it. How does that

  23. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    First, European states are not interchangeable with one another any more than American states are. Are Sweden, Norway, and Denmark in the same economic boat as Greece? How about Mississippi and...

  24. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    And yet, Medicare is more efficient (i.e., it costs less per capita) than any private insurance. There are problems with large organizations, whether government or private. Do you think large private...

  25. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Congress passed the best that it was going to get. Such is the political process. No one got everything they wanted. There is no way that anyone would. So Congress passed what it had, and the...