Christ Holo if you really think that way I hope you never get sick. I have to say its easy to underestimate how horrific the US health care system is before you are in it. Did you know the following facts?
Hospitals charge 4 times as much to people without insurance or people who do have insurance but are not covered for a specific procedure. For example I ended up with a kidney stone and was billed 7000 dollars for two hours in the hospital, I had insurance at the time luckily, insurance paid under 2k for what they billed me 7 for. They charge 4x as much for those who have the least.
Insurance has final say on what is allowed, not doctors, and they have people who's sole job it is to avoid covering procedures and operations, many of which are medically necessary in the opinions of doctors. These people making decisions on behalf of the insurance industry average below a bachelors degree while doctors are...you know...MD educated doctors.
Most HMOs, which is what a lot of people have, are similar to socialized medicine but with more red tape and worse services. You are limited in who you can see, you are limited in services you have access to, you are given long waits on services and they do whatever they can to not cover whatever services you do need.
It's just horrid doing anything through insurance in the US, the idea that it is in any way superior is false. Wait till you get sick and have to deal with billing or anything else and maybe you'll figure that one out. Our health care system is a horror show designed to enrich the already rich who donate to those in power. It is beyond broken.
And yes, when you act like McCain has anything to do with Teddy Roosevelt you are kidding yourself. Conservation, enviornmental protection, the begining of the FDA and government regulation of companies....Roosevelt was without a doubt a democrat in the modern political landscape. The Republicans have turned into a combination of greedy special interests and religous hacks. They are this horrific hybrid of two horrid ideas. Modern Republicans have turned into don't tax and spend social conservatives, I can't immagine anything worse.
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