Warning from the President!

[Khuutra]

TheRealMafoo said:

Khuutra said:

TheRealMafoo said:

Slimebeast said:

In Sweden (socialized health care) people in general can't choose a hospital or specialist. You can under certain conditions, but it's usually complicated - there's a general rule: only if your county's hospital(s) have a wait time of more than 3 months, you are allowed to seek treatment in another county's hospitals or specialists (but in practice they cheat with those 3 months, which become 4-5 months).

Doesn't seem so dumb a question now, does it Khuutra? ;)

Thanks for the info, slimebeast.

But nah, everything I said still stands.

But you do realize, that in the US, there are NO wait times. You need something, you get it.

Why would you want to lose that?

Of course I don't. Wait times happen everywhere, including in the US, but we'e good about it.

If we can pay for it.

But I think that universal health care is better than quicker healthcare for some. That's all there is.

No, some people cannot get health insurance, regardless of whether or not they want to, and health insurance does not actually insure that you will receive coverage. If you want to start talking about horror stories that don't represent that average but are still stunning, I will pull out Sicko. I will do it. Moore may not be much of a filmmaker (not going to call him a documentarian) but he's pretty good at collecting horror stories about people who are denied coverage by their insurance for stupid, stupid reasons.

Anyway, yeah. Universal healthcare is best, by my reckoning. That's all there is.