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Originally Posted by tony404
You got a good point Paul.The problem here is people vote against their own best interests. People making 40k a year listening to the right wing pundits and talking about raised taxes and death tax. These things really have nothing to do with them but they have been lead to believe it does. They are paying up the ass for health care but believe a democrat is voted in, national health care will be the down fall of us all. Which is funny when you considered the US isnt even close to highest for life expectancy and is high in baby deaths.its very sad.
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I watched Sicko and was amazed at how it missed the point. Over and over Michael Moore want on about how people were missing out on health care because they did not have health insurance. He even came to the UK to interview people. Yet still missed the point.
IMO What he missed was the cost of health care for some in the US and compare it with the cost of health care for all in the the UK or any other modern EU country and high light why it's different.
How much does the average American and employer pay for health care for them self and probably their family compared to the average Brit, Dane or German? What do they get and where does the money go?
I can compare two brothers in the 1980s and 1990s, both very senior executives in major companies, both very highly paid. One paying for health care through an insurance company,
for himself and his family only, the other paying it to the National Health scheme
for himself, family and the poor.
Then compare after a life time of paying one is still covered for health care, even though he's retired and no longer paying. The other will lose his health care the day he stops paying in.
No need to rack your brain who paid the most for his health care.
The other point Michael Moore missed was health care in the EU is not free. We pay for it, if we can, all our working lives. It's free at the point of delivery. My point is which one cost the less and delivers the most?