American health care is NOT in bad shape?
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They have payment plans. Also, if you are really poor, you can always get aid. There is NO excuse not to be able to afford medicine. The system we currently have is the best one out there. Look at all the problems they have in Canada.
Plenty of jobs out there will pay for medical procedures.
Why all the complaining? It doesn't make any sense.
Michael Moore and these left wing wackos are destroying America by making the hospitals out to be the bad guys.
If Michael Moore cares so much, why doesn't he just give all of his money to pay for those people he were in his film Sicko? I somehow doubt he will ever do that though.
Agree?
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Eric you obviously don't know a thing about health care in this country. Your first response to the question was to try to demean the person asking the question in order to give yourself some credibility. It didn't work. The health care in this country is better than most countries in the world. Do you see people from all over the world going to Cuba for health care? NOT! Do you see excellent health care in countries with socialized medicine. No. What they have are outrageous taxes and long lines for health care. When you give people free health care they abuse the system. Don't believe me, go into an ER in the middle of the night and see who is there for minor stuff that they have had for a week, but want to be seen right now in ER.
I do know physicians from Canada who have come to the US because of the lack of resources to treat patients in Canada. They have told horror stories of long lines and long waits for needed procedures. Not to mention the 40% tax to pay for it.
See what is happening? The lower income people are the targets because most low-wage jobs either do not offer insurance or the insurance is so high, they cannot afford it. Try making 5-8 bucks an hour, minus taxes, minus over 100 a week for family insurance. That is why these people are liking the universal healthcare system. They don't realize the HUGE problems it will bring. The system we have now is only giving help to CHILDREN of people with low incomes, not adults over 18. (unless they are pregnant women.) We only need a program for ALL people who have low income. This would not even cost a lot. It would not cost as much as universal healthcare will cost EVERYONE.
When I think of Universal Healthcare, I think of an EXTREME HMO plan. HMO's are currently better than nothing, but think if they got extremely worse and that was all there was for EVERYONE??
No I don't agree. I don't hear anything negative about Canada's health system. I don't care to hear about your fictitious information either , because its baloney.
As a Canadian, I'm kind of curious about what you mean when you say, "look at all the problems they have in Canada." People here get sick, they get treated--no problem.
No, I don't agree.
Actually, the poor people are taken care of. It's the middle-class that has problems.
Michael Moore raised awareness of an issue, but he is a Socialist with an agenda. He misleads, and cherry-picks his facts to fit into his rationale of how things "ought to be."
Secondly, Moore, like most Hollywood celebrities, is a hypocrite. The Hollywood left want a Socialist government to run all aspects of our lives (wherever they suspect an "injustice" that requires us to forfeit our personal decision-making.) But they don't want to pay for it via the sky-high tax rates these programs would require. They hide their money in foundations, and use them as tax shelters - pure hypocrisy.
If these wack-jobs got their way, the middle class would literally be taxed into extinction.
this is not a place for your soap box...
Michael Moore is a wacko for sure AND there are serious problems with the healthcare system.
"American health care is NOT in bad shape?...The system we currently have is the best one out there " - well the World Health Organisation says it is not the best and the statistics back them up. Since they tell us how they arrived at thier conclusion (by actually studying availability and effectiveness compared to other countries) but you do not I am going to go with them.
No, I don't agree.
In fact, I would respectfully submit that you are an excellent example of the power of corporate propaganda.
Your "question" is not one of actual curiousity, but rather, a thinly-veiled defense of a socio-economic system for which you have a vested interest (employment, investments, etc).
Or perhaps you have no vested interest in the success of the system; rather, you have been deluded into thinking that the interests of the power elite are your interests as well.
You don't have to be Michael Moore or a "left wing wacko" to understand the intrinsic economic inequalities of the current medical system which disproportionately effects our government through their financial interests in representation from both Democrats and Republicans.
And just for the record, take a look at what Moore has done for people who have fallen through the cracks of our medical system. He humiliated a giant corporation to the point that they gave a guy an organ transplant when previously they had refused the operation!
As Moore would be the first to say, our system IS great ... for those who can afford it.
I don't see why people like you think that it is appropriate that our money for health care goes to pay for advertisements, administrators who have nothing to do with providing care but simply try to maximize profits (often by denying care), and padding politicians' pockets. That is our money that could be used much more ethically and efficiently if it wasn't all about profits.
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