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Originally Posted by TheSenator
Here is the sick part! The number one issue domestically is our health care system! None of the major news organizations in the United States talk about it or even report it when a presidential canditate talks about it.
Health care is a civil right.
They should increase taxes on cigarettes, alcohol and gas to pay for universal health care in the US.
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Neither State nor private insurance is perfect. They both have flaws. When my Brother was diagnosed with Prostate cancer it was just after he had lost his job and uninsured. The cost of fixing it was astronomical. He flew to the UK and as a UK citizen got it done for free. For the follow up checks he flew back to the UK to get them. Cheaper than a US hospital.
When my Farther suffered a massive heart attack he was rushed to hospital and very soon after had open heart surgery which saved his life. Then when he had an Annurism in his aorta the local hospital seeing he had open heart surgery assumed he had insurance and started doing test instead of taking him directly to the hospital which did the surgery by helicopter right away. Even though my Brother and Mother kept asking them too.
He died in that local hospital while they were running up the bill.
The worse thing about that film Sicko, was the old guy who well past retirement age was still working as a postman. To keep his health insurance. At his age he should be able to retire knowing that after decades of working and paying taxes to the State, he has the State to look after him.