Healthcare isn't a business, it's peoples lives

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Esmoreit said:

TheRealMafoo said:

highwaystar101 said:

*First off I am not a socialist.* - Just want to make that clear

 

But I do support socialist healthcare regardless of taxes or cost. I think there are more important things in life than money and health is one of them.

 

I don’t have an endless supply of money. Every dollar I have, I have to earn. Every dollar represents a segment of my life. When you collect those dollars to heal someone else, you are trading my life for their health.

Why is their health worth more to you then my life?

First of all, this analogy is simply out of whack. Your taxesy could just as well be spent on education, or the military. Secondly, we all fall ill. We will, at some point need the services of the hospital. If you can think of more then 5 people close to you who have not been in a hospital your clearly a rarity. And you will then be glad that those hospitals are there. It's also simply the humane thing to do. My grandmother would have never been able to pay for a new hip in the American health system. And I wish her, and any other person the best of care in the world. And I'll gladly pay for that.

I also don't see why you would have to spend so much money on health care. I pay maybe 50 euro a month for healthinsurance, 25 euro I get back every time I don't use the hospital.

By the way... I am a consultant in health care. Or at least, becoming one after two projects related to health care and writing my thesis on DRG's and treating health care like a business is the best way to reform them ;).

 

Do you believe your grandmother's health insurance would not cover a hip replacement in America?  People in America also get hip replacements, you know and we don't all pay out of pocket.