curlypearl

It's a terrible problem. I don't know what the answer is - and I totally get what you're saying, Crimson. We don't want to go from a crummy system to another crummy system that isn't good either. I just know that it makes my heart ache, for want of a better way to put it, knowing that people are ill and suffering and we supposedly live in the richest country that has ever existed.

We put a man on the moon - surely if there were sufficient will we could come up with a better health care system than we have now. It is so urgent. {{{Juanab}}} {{{ Diaspora}}}

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curlyarca

Aren't state workers able to have such great insurance because their insurance comes from state funds (i.e., collective, tax payer dollars)? Your points are already weak, but even further weakened when you explain the great healthcare you have via your husband's state employment. How are you going to complain about how horrible the anecdotes from Canada are? Really? Hundreds of thousands of people pay for you (i.e., state or federal workers and their spouses and dependents) to have benefits (as Canadians do for their neighbors)....while the majority of the public rely on smaller pools from private organizations or worse, no pool at all. That is where I think yes, we should work to give EVERYONE the best healthcare possible instead of this every man for himself mess. Because the truth is when catastrophic illness happens to you, you're going to be looking around with your hand out....and for good reason. Your neighbors should want to give you a hand up in a situation like that. Not ignore you or shake their heads as they walk by and comment on how your own laziness put you in that situation.

I do think PPACA is a step in the right direction. Sure, I want universal healthcare, too. I agree that it's a shame that we are the last ones to get with the program on this issue. But it's just not going to happen here right now. People in the US care more about individuals than everyone. We're selfish.

I'd rather (as Ginsburg said during the PPACA arguments) deal with a salvage job rather than a wrecking job with nothing to replace what's been demolished.

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Reminder:
We live in a country where people LITERALLY CLAP AND CHEER when they hear about people dying from lack of insurance.

diaspora

Actually most people do want a single-payer universal healthcare system in the US! 59% of doctors want it and the % of regular people who want it varies from 60-80% in polls. We just never hear about it because there is a media blackout on single-payer. It is threatening to the insurance and pharmaceutical industries, who fund our politicians. The health insurance industry actually spends millions of dollars each year to propagandize how "bad" national healthcare is. Wendell Potter is great on this, a former insurance company big-whig who exposes their PR campaigns. http://wendellpotter.com/

And I know what you mean about the shock of living in another country-- I lived in London for 6 months and when I got sick, no wait and no bills. It was amazing. You like, get teary-eyed when you realize how much easier and less stressful things could be.

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diaspora

Oh gawd, that was so disturbing.

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diaspora

Physicians for a National Health Program on the new healthcare legislation: Pro-single-payer doctors: Health bill leaves 23 million uninsured | Physicians for a National Health Program

And on the same subject on the website of my favorite national single-payer healthcare org (ok, self-promotion, I used to be the director before, ironically, I got sick): Healthcare-NOW! - Against the health care mandate

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crimsonshedemon

There's no reason to get upset. I can feel the hostility. It's sad that when someone tries to explain their perspective there's always someone else there to say you are wrong. I'm not bashing Canada's healthcare simply expressing concerns from what I've been told by many.

crimsonshedemon

Exactly!! Thank you!

diaspora

A couple curlies in this thread expressed concern that a national healthcare system might be bad too. Some people will, understandably, be wary of any major change to the healthcare system. However, if the myth that we have the best healthcare system in the world wasn't so prevalent, I think people would be more open to change. There is no perfect system, but there are things that are measured that tell us what systems work better than others. The US is at the bottom compared to other wealthy countries (all with national healthcare) on almost all measures. Not providing access to healthcare for all its residents is just 1 of the things the hc system gets wrong The profit-motive has no place in healthcare.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: How the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally, 2010 Update - The Commonwealth Fund

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Eilonwy

But we are the best... if by "best" you mean "worse than most of the first world."

crimsonshedemon

That's most certainly a myth. Our health care system is a disaster. Things need to be changed all over and I have no idea what those changes should be.

curlyarca

LOL it's not hostile, it's true. Perhaps you have never considered how those benefits state workers receive came to be. It's sad that someone can't admit that their comfortable situation may have more in common with a "socialist" healthcare system than a capitalist one.

I personally am on the community rating, not-tied-to-work-status healthcare bandwagon. Healthcare should not be something you have to earn like a paycheck.

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