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Originally Posted by eroswebmaster
Imagine if we had universal health and dental care in America.
Imagine how many sick days we could eliminate causing downtime in business.
Imagine how many people's self confidence would be boosted because they had a beautiful smile, therefore moving up to a better job and not having to suffer in lower economic status.
Imagine how much less we would spend because preventative health care caught someone's disease before it became terminal.
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This is true. I stole the following from a Canadian board -
Canadian Health Care vs "Sicko" by Michael Moore - but it pretty much sums it up nicely:
Despite US being the most powerful economy, I think they fail to realize that it is NOT cheaper to not have universal health care. Because if you let people get sick, the cost for a society increases on an overall scale.
If people in your country become sick and remain sick due to their inability to afford a medical care, what happens is that your resources squander - namely their human resources, among other things by failing to give a chance to the weak, sick, disabled to live a productive life, abandoning them to be a burden to their family and their community. Children, old people, disabled can be left to their own devices. Or not. Guess what is cheaper at the end of the day?