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Originally Posted by TheDoc
In the U.S. Media, news, papers, radio, ect.. Universal healthcare is pushed as a major danger to Americans. They pitch the idea of total gov takeover backed by a monsterous tax increase.
The American Voting population has a job, pays bills, has kids, and has health care. So pushing a huge tax increase health care plan on something they already over pay for isn't going to be very easy.
And much of the medical community doesn't support it either, way to much money to be lost if the Gov took control. They lobby the Gov, tell the people it's bad, making it even harder to get going.
At that, the US really doesn't need Universal Health Care, it simply needs laws to force medical costs to match what other countries pay and force insurance companies to insure the sick/old - whatever. We have a fine system, it just has some broken parts.
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so how come government run systems (Europe, Canada) are cheaper than the private run systems? If you have 50 million Americans (1/6 of the country) without healthcare and a ton of others with inadequate healthcare you have a big problem, some tweaks here and there won't fix it
for the taxes: start looking where the taxes and the tax cuts go to and you'll find plenty of money for universal healthcare, but if you keep allowing bribery (campaign contributions) and pillaging of your state finances, you'll end up with no money leftover for healthcare, hell just revert back to the pre-Nixon system and you'll be better of
The US has a child mortality rate of a poor country, shouldn't that alone make anyone stop and think?