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highwaystar101 on 09 May 2009
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Tyrannical said:
highwaystar101 said:

That was a case I used to back up about four posts I had previously posted, more or less right before this post. you can't post about that without acknowledging the post where I spoke about my housemates because this was a hypothetical situation to back up the point that they made about national health.

 

You can't make shit up that is ridicuously wrong, then claim it backs up some hypothetical point you made, and then get pissed that I don't care your UK flat mates are nurses, as if that makes then some type of policy expect on health care in the US.

I have used the US health care system, and am quite happy with it. Most people in the US do not want nationalized healthcare, and if the Democrats keep pushing it they are not going to get re-elected. That's why Bill Clinton shut up about it ten years ago.

Let me illustarate it with a picture. This is how most (as in numerical majority) Americans feel about socialized medicine.

The hypothetical point is fairly sound IMO. The only way to deny that it isn't sound is by suggesting that your country does not have ANY poor towns/communities. Poor areas do exist in the USA, you may not live in one, but I'm pretty sure they exist.

I can guarentee that you are not seriously ill or injured to the point that you can't get a job and you are in and out of hospital every week. I'm very happy that you are not in this situation, so you can debate here about how great your system is.

If it wasn't for medicare I bet many of your poorer citizens who can't afford insurance or healthcare would be pushing for a national system of some sort.