RE: Universal Health Care
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As a non-American... looking at the way that your system of healthcare and well... everything in your society has developed and evolved. Let's just say that it is pretty strange, and quite scary! I'm not sure that they were intended... more likely the unintended consequences of competing interests. I would rather that Australia and Netherlands took it as a lesson in what to be careful of instead of an example to emulate.
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It's confusing, for sure. The ironic part of my rant is that my dad is Canadian - in Canada, of course - retired, and wheelchair bound due to ALS. By any stretch, he is the person that "doesn't deserve healthcare," as he'd put it.
I definitely understand the expense and financial implications of overhauling the US system as it is, but I don't understand the insistence on refusing to make changes to it.
I guess it is the usual thing... things are terrible, but people are scared that they alternative is worse! Better the devil that you know...
... or I would suggest that the people with the most power to change the system are the people who most benefit from the current set up!