America has the worst overall of any wealthy country, the second worse in the world I believe (due to the reasons you've stated!) America has the highest infant mortality rate of any of the G8 and it also has a lower life expectancy (by a good 5-10 years!) than any other G8 country.
France has the best followed by countries like Germany, U.K, Japan?!?!
Your hospitals may be fantastic but they're only fantastic for the small percentage that can pay!
A person can lose thier home, everything they've ever worked for purely because they can't avoid the inevitable, people get ill, people need medical attention several times in thier live's... IT WILL HAPPEN.
In England we have the N.H.S (national health service) in which we all get the same free medical care throughout our lives. Even people on holiday, visiting family, working from overseas gets the same free care we do if they become ill whilst here. We also get free secondry education and loans from the goverment to pay for university courses to get degrees if you continue in education (you only have to pay the loan back when you are earning a certain amount of money per year) The secret to this 'equal treatment'... MASSIVE TAXES! You can't have one without the other. If you want your nation to have equal care as we do... prepare for huge tax increases. Petrol, tobacco, alcohol... they all have stupid amounts of tax on them, more than you'd ever believe (a pack of 20 cigs costs 11$ in your money)
It's things like this that fund free health-care. I agree with it but I don't like the feeling of being robbed every time I buy some smokes, the government are 'stealing to heal'
It's great if you can afford it. The health care is great but the system is a total racket. It's worse than if the mafia ran it. 1/3 of all the money in our health care system goes to administration...that is 33% of roughly $2 trillion JUST for computers, personnel to track records, claims adjusters, account managers, and 50 other kinds of glorified secretaries.
For the average person, the health care isn't great. We have the infant mortality rate of Costa Rica. It's a disgrace how much we spend on everything except health care and education. Really shameful.
I agree with you completely. There were so many people fighting against universal healthcare for the states, like c'mon. Why can't the average person benefit from their healthcare system too? I commented on a question like this before, and someone said that the people without health insurance are just lazy and should get a better job. And also asked why should they have to support those who are too lazy to work hard. Well let me tell those people something. I have a chronic health condition, I don't know where I would be without Canadian healthcare. Sure I have to wait a while to get help, and there are issues here too, but at least I don't have to choose between basic necessities and my health.
Many of the people in the states who don't have health insurance, DO work hard. They have families to support and have homes, cars and have to pay the bills on a daily basis just like everyone else. Not having a universal health care system only hurts those average Americans who work hard everyday doing jobs that the elite wouldn't dare do. These people help keep the American economy going, and have been hardest hit by the economy. Why should they get a further blow if they were to get sick? Shouldn't everyone deserve the privilege of going to a hospital to seek treatment without fear of going into life altering debt?
I've never heard anyone insist that. Usually when I hear people talking about American healthcare, they're talking about how bad it is.
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that's pretty retarded, we have 36 countries ahead of us.
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This is the only country I know where the government tried to give its citizens free health care and the people got pissed about it...
People who say that are probably the ones who can afford it. The actual quality of care is excellent, but the system as a whole has enormous problems.
The best doctors practice in America. Hence the high costs of healthcare. And our sue-happy society. Universal health care is a good idea, but it IS going to make taxes sky high to pay for all of the people who can't afford healthcare. So, in the end, its going to be equally unaffordable. We need to revise insurance and laws as one step in the right direction.
Because they're ignorant and patriotic. A lethal combination.
When people say that they are not talking about insurance. They mean we have the best doctors practicing here. People travel from all over the world to get treated in America.
I wouldn't know; I can't afford healthcare.
Never heard anyone insisting on it.
Also I've never heard anyone who cares about it in a first place.
I have NEVER heard anyone say that. If anything, people openly criticise it (I'm in Australia).
who insists that?
but we might have the best technology, doctors, etc
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