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Northern_Light

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33. We have the best healthcare system in the world if you can afford it.

Reply to snot (Original post)

Mon Dec 23, 2024, 02:56 PM

Dec 23

We hear all the time about people coming to the US for medical care. I'm pretty sure those people are wealthy enough to afford it. Why else would Americans go overseas for medical care that they can afford.

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The best health care system in the world [View all] snot Dec 22 OP

Ours evolved rather than was designed Turbineguy Dec 22 #1

"Evolved" implies improvement. Siphoning patient $s to non-medical capitalists is not an improvement. erronis Dec 22 #4

Agree. Codifer Dec 22 #10

Any other system would help the poor and fail to enrich the wealthy. BadgerMom Dec 22 #2

Excellent OP - preach. nt TBF Dec 22 #3

100% this! pandr32 Dec 22 #5

IIRC LogDog75 Dec 22 #6

Thank you Dick Nixon WOLFMAN87 Dec 22 #7

There is a tape. Blue Full Moon Dec 22 #18

The other guy WmChris Dec 22 #22

There is no SYSTEM in the U.S. elleng Dec 22 #8

No system but a set of laws and regulations AlexSFCA Dec 22 #14

Great summary - thanks. But maybe when Trump has annexed Canada as our 51st state TheRickles Dec 22 #9

Signature mamacita75 Dec 22 #20

Thanks. "Cowgirls" is a classic, and deservedly so. TheRickles Dec 22 #21

Still, ACA was a massive improvement AlexSFCA Dec 22 #11

K/R. Michael Moore's recent article on the US Heathcare Industry: appalachiablue Dec 22 #12

Thank Joe Lieberman... Grumpy Old Guy Dec 22 #13

Bingo!! Lieberman was a shameless sock puppet for the insurance industry. MMBeilis Dec 22 #16

Remember death panels? Farmer-Rick Dec 23 #23

and the "patient portals" that keep them from having actual humans answering phones, scheduling and Rx's. Evolve Dammit Dec 22 #15

YES snot Dec 23 #30

"...but for our lack of political will." J_William_Ryan Dec 22 #17

But snot Dec 23 #31

We need national healthcare. Beck23 Dec 22 #19

One risk pool is a health care system. Multiple risk pools is an investment scheme. Ron Green Dec 23 #24

The Preamble says... GiqueCee Dec 23 #25

The good news is the entire House and a third of the Senate is elected every 2 years and of course the POTUS every 4 - walkingman Dec 23 #26

I'm interested in an organization called Represent.Us - snot Dec 23 #32

Started with the DixieCrats IbogaProject Dec 23 #27

I'm going full-on Pollyanna with healthcare and current destructive policies of TSF duhneece Dec 23 #28

Your function is to produce wealth and push it all up the pyramid before you die. Hermit-The-Prog Dec 23 #29

We have the best healthcare system in the world if you can afford it. Northern_Light Dec 23 #33

My DH is a mechanic; he fixes hospital equipment Bettie Dec 23 #34

Better at being worse: Our old pre-Obamacare system. Festivito Dec 23 #35