I believe the victims here would appreciate some "socialism" - as in Medicare for all.

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Kantor said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Kantor said:

haxxiy said:
Medical care is so overpriced on the USA my aunt once considered opening an agency on Orlando in order to bring people to Brazil to start their treatment / have their surgery on private clinics here. Hell, for a single check-up it is cheaper to pay an extra $1000 for the flight.

Solution: kill all your physicists and import new ones from India. Surely it would ruin less lives in the end.

The quality of care in the USA is pretty much the best in the world if you can pay.

You can get great healthcare in many countries as long as you're willing to pay. Socialized medical care is the alternative for the majority elsewhere, thats all. America is just the country a medical doctor can go to if they want to buy a boat and two houses. 

The very word "socialised" is poisonous to Americans, so "universal" is probably a better term to use, though it can mean multiple things.

The thing about national health insurance is that either you force everyone to pay in, in which case if you want high quality care you need to pay for insurance twice, or you allow people to opt out, in which case it can't be funded because the wealthy who provide most of the funding opt out and get private health insurance.

If everyone is willing to pay a tax its fine (Tax is a dirty word over here just like socialism as you know). Most of the healthcare most people have in other countries like Germany, Britain, France, Japan, etc is an archetype of a medical care system built by FDR in the New Bill of Rights in the US. Sadly he died before it couldbe finalized (The private corporations loved that part of the story), but after WWII when nations were being rebuilt they got to enjoy the healthcare and job security that was initially meant for us. The point of it all was to protect American citizens from the arm of the private sector that didnt care about the rights of the workers. I've gone to medical centers outside of the US and many countries get some of the same medicine and healthcare for far less. The vein of the American system is too broken to give it socialized medicine now. Something major would have to happen.