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Where is the left? The Missing Left in America
Don Jacob:
--- Quote from: CWalker187 on November 27, 2002, 09:03:55 PM ---
--- Quote from: Overseer on November 27, 2002, 01:47:37 AM ---Whats bad about free health care? I dont understand the downside?
Isn't it more humane to treat everyone equally and freely?
Those who want higher class treatment can and do pay for private treatment where they might get a private room or whatever.
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What about the fact that if you want an operation, you probably will have to wait on a list for months and months while I as an American can have the surgery instantly. And what about the fact that I as an American have by far the best medical care in the world.
There are many downsides to universal heath care.
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yeah my grandma had breast cancer.....she use to live in america but married a canadian dude and lives there now
here she had a really good doctor and she was spared from feeling most of the side effects of treating cancer, she had to pay but it was well worth it she says .....the cancer (i forgot the medica term for it where it goes dormit andyour fine, i thnk it's banine but i don't know) and she was cool, when she moved to canada it acted up again.....now she was getting free health care but she said that the treatments were pretty crappy, so she paid for better service and it wasn't nearly as good......so basically she just got sick of it all and had both breasts and her limpnodes removed which was more of a hastle than paying and being treated in the US she said
^ that ain't an anti free health care message but some people don't find it to be that glorious
it's kinda like a split issue with me , i'm on neither side
CWalker187:
The article was extremely dumb by the way. Leftists are in big trouble. More conservative parties are gaining much more power and popularity, in both America and Europe. I think that leftists are too far out of touch with the people.
That is why I vote straight Republican.
Don Seer:
uhhh no.
for one the UK is 'left' for the first time in over 10 years.
No one of you has answered my question so I will rephrase.
In a society where people have to pay for their health care whats happens to those who cant afford treatment?
They are left to die?
CharlieBrown:
CWalker i have to correct you as America doesn't have the best health care in the world, officially it has the 38th best in the world. That is appalling for a country as well off as it is, and the fact that not everyone can afford all of it's services is even worse. Oh and Britains NHS which is so often put down in the media and by Americans who don't know shit, our healthcare is rated 20 places higher than the USA (France has the best in the world).
Nostromoo:
--- Quote from: Overseer on November 27, 2002, 01:47:37 AM ---Whats bad about free health care? I dont understand the downside?
Isn't it more humane to treat everyone equally and freely?
Those who want higher class treatment can and do pay for private treatment where they might get a private room or whatever.
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The downside is that you still have to pay for it even if you don't use it. The quaility between public and private healthcare will never be the same because the general public will never pay the taxes for luxury treatment - they just want cheap and cheerful. But the few who do want more comfortable private health care still have to pay for the "free" public health care they don't want to use.
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