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Kasz216 on 26 June 2012
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HesAPooka said:

I'm going to get into an argument as to what makes a good documentary or not.
Most Americans think their health care is great because they have no basis of comparisons, and when someone like Michael Moore does claim your system is shit and makes a movie about it, although slightly extreme, your corrupt media and politicians mock it and call his film propaganda.

 

Edit: I never once said America should have a publicly funded health care system like Canada, but like you said. Fix the one you have noe cause it's shit. Look to the Swiss who have a much better system and fix your own. 

Wait... where did Switzerland come from?

Michael Moore would HATE a swiss style healthcare system.  If we ever seriously leaned that way he'd probably make a documentry forced on the "dark underseide" of the swiss healthcare system.

The Swiss system would be seen as an "extreme rightwing proposal" meant to destroy healthcare.

As evidenced by the fact that Bill O'Reily loves it.

 

There are numerous problems with trying to apply the Swiss system to the US.

 

1) You'd have to get rid of Medicare and Medicaid.  The Swiss system subsides the poor, but does so in a very "Paul Ryan" way of vouchers.  It would essentially face the same opposition privatisation of Social Security and the School Systems work. 

Well I shouldn't say it would.... so much as "It has" as that's exactly what happened.  Paul Ryan tried swiss style reformation of Medicare and Medicaid and was shut down for being an extreme right wing privitisation plan.

 

2) You'd have to get rid of corporate bought and paid for insurance.  Which is a big pride, espeically among union workers. 

3) Most people would pay more or atleast a higher percentage of the bill.  All Swiss healthcare plans are like the cheaper healthcare plans that exist.  Like the one I have.   Most people would be paying higher co-pays/shared cost for treatment.  This is one of the "cost controlling" measures.  They're mandated that people basically have to share a certain percentage of the costs. (but can get subsidides if they're poor enough, but still.)

Essentially the Democrats would see it as "Extreme Right Wing Privitisatin of Healthcare" while most Republicans would see it as "government intervening in the rest of the healthcare market."