US presidential preference poll 3/9/08 - Obama 46, McCain 45

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Entroper said:

HappySqurriel said:

Whenever their is a debate on two tier healthcare people talk about the horrors of the "American" healthcare system, but (as you mentioned) there is no corpse wagon going around communities with a man calling for you to "Bring out your dead" ... which may be what we will see in the near future in Canada if something doesn't change.

I find that deliciously ironic, since whenever there is a debate about healthcare in the US, people talk about the "horrors" of socialized medicine in Canada and Europe.

 That goes to show you that not one system is all that great, and that people think everything will be better "if only" some one thing changed. Trust me, I work in health care, and its just a crazy buisness. No other sector in the world has such an inelastic demand, regardless of prices. If I say I can take away your chronic pain I can charge $10,000 or $100,000 and I will get just about the same amount of customers. Health care doesn't follow the laws of capitalism that our entire culture is based on. Something unknown needs to change before it bankrupts every insurance company and every socialist government.