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Stromprophet said: I agree, it would be nice if everyone had healthcare. But it is a fact that the Average American has more access to better technology and more money is invested per capita in America on new medical research than all these other countries people are mentioning. Just look back at my post with the links and read for yourself.
Sadly, this means nothing to the people who cannot pay. I do have insurance of course, between my employer and I about $600 a month goes into it. The cost of this insurance raises by approximately 25% every year, unless we move to another provider (which comes with its own costs.) I can understand why many cannot afford it.
Long wait times for procedures, like Kemo therapy DO exist in both Canada and Europe. I also posted a link to that in one of my posts.
We have wait times for procedures in the US as well. Is a shorter wait time worth the loss of your future financial security?
I like how Europe gets off being all cocky about stuff, maybe America should have left you in the Nazis hands. It's been 60 years since then and Europe acts like America is the enemy, and when we protected Europe thru the 80s against Russia. If not for US having a lot of forces in those countries and deterring the Russians they probably would have rolled over the rest of Europe. I'm just incensed at the lack of thankfulness. The US gave Billions and Billions of dollars to help rebuild Europe and now some people would mock that the US is weak and in shambles. Perhaps you'd all rather be speaking German.
How thankful the populations of the various European countries might feel about it now has no relevance to our health care system, which is flawed.
And as for the Canadians. Really....that countries financial health is closely tied to ours. So why even talk about the US economy going down the tubes.
Perhaps it's because they have a vested interest in our economy remaining healthy.