| HappySqurriel said: Yeah, you can follow the Canadian model where your healthcare system is rapidly becomming one of the worst in the world and (because the healthcare system has become a political sacred cow, and is protected by several powerful public sector unions) you can't reform the system and the only politically acceptable solution is to throw more money at it ... Health is important, and until people start understanding that and take-care of their health I think socialized healthcare will always be a boondoggle. |
This. The main problem with health care is insurance companies always weasel out of paying everything owed to hospitals and ambulance agencies. The costs to patients could be much lower if it wasn't for the insurance problems. The ambulance company I used to work at has had to hire a lot of EMT's instead of paramedics recently because of these problems. They can't afford to have so many paramedics anymore. it's a sad state of affairs, but the socialist model is NOT the one we should be following. Unfortunately Obama is trying to shift our entire countries model after france. sigh.
