What Could Go Wrong in the U.S.

[Walks_in_islam]

It is respectfully noted that people in Scandinavian countries live longer aka have longer lifespans. Ditto England and every other country with a (so-called terrible) public healthcare system. Ditto Canada. So, with this in mind, what's your point?

Have you been there or tried out or observed a public system?

How 'bout access to medication? Didja know I can hop down to the pharmacy down the street and buy anything I want or need w/o a prescription for less than my copay used to be?

Canadians and scandinavians dont have to go to the doctor. They can just go buy their medications. Cuts down (significantly) on the healthcare system load. Whatever they are doing wrong - they also live longer. So. Where does your fear come from?

Originally Posted by HaShaliach

There are a number of simple and effective ways - many are in place and being practiced in many places in the western world already.

Denying the elderly selected medicines and medical procedures, because they are too expensive, as already practiced by some insurance companies and embedded in the new health care bill. Then, as already practiced in several Scandinavian countries, the elderly will not go to see a doctor and refuse to enter a hospital, because they most likely will not walk out again (they receive injections that terminate their 'illness'). All of these kinds of things have been in the news for several years in the European press, not so much in the US press. Oops, so sorry!

BTW, England is ditching much of its social medical system because it hasn't worked and they can no longer afford it. Quite a bit of what they are ditching? You guessed it! It is a lot of the same stuff that we have just been saddled with in the Obamacare bill. (Reference: The Telegraph [telegraph.co.uk])