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0 pointstbrooks16y ago0 comments

I would argue that government involvement in the private sector is why our system is broken. I don't mean for this to sound snarky, but what nation runs a better health care system than the US? The quality (for the cost) of medical care in the US is far better than any other nation.

Both Canada and Britain have gov't health programs. 25% of the people in Canada wait 6 months or more for surgery, in Britain that number is higher. In the US, only 5% wait that long. The waiting time for an MRI in Canada is 10 weeks.

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gnaritas16y ago· 2 in thread

The waiting time for a large chunk of Americans for all of those procedures is infinite, because they can't afford them at all. That makes the Canadian and British system look quite a lot better than ours. America has the best emergency care system for rich people in the world, but for the average Joe our healthcare system sucks compared to just about any of those socialized systems. The idea that America has the best healthcare system in the world is a joke.

jcnnghm16y ago

And that's too bad. They only people that I've ever met that don't have insurance have enough money to pay for it, but choose not to. The poor are already covered by social programs.

gnaritas16y ago

> They only people that I've ever met that don't have insurance have enough money to pay for it

Then you haven't met enough people.

> The poor are already covered by social programs.

That's a joke I hope, but it isn't at all true. Social programs tend to only cover emergency care. If you get cancer and you're poor, you're fucked and doomed to a slow death because emergency rooms don't do chemotherapy. Anything that requires treatment but isn't immediately emergency life or death and you're screwed. Do you actually know many poor people?

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