Socialized National Health Care DOESN'T WORK !

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( Mod. note: And if we had other choices of national health care

modalities {acupuncture, naturopathy, etc.} other than allopathic

poison pills it would bring down the costs tremendously . Of course, all of the

B.S. aside, none of the U.S. government/ politicians, insurance co.s, medical

system, Big Pharma, etc. want the costs to go down, but it sounds good when

B.S.ing the people. If costs were really important, to the powers that be, they

would be down. They are not, so the price of medical care just keeps getting

more expensive as planned)

 

 

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Mon, 6 Feb 2006 12:49:46 -0800 (PST)

Socialized National Health Care DOESN'T WORK !

 

 

 

Socialized National Health Care DOESN'T WORK!

Posted by Yollam

Added to homepage Fri Feb 03rd 2006, 09:44 AM ET

 

 

 

That's right. I can tell you from personal experience.

 

I lived in Japan from 1995 to 2000. I had the Social National Health

Insurance.

 

I paid $70 a month in premiums, which was matched by my employer.

 

It covered full medical AND dental for me, my wife and two kids.

 

I could choose any doctor I liked, so we picked the doctor in the

neighborhood.

 

I could go any time, even without an appointment, and still the wait

times were less than 30 minutes most of the time.

 

Office visits were $5.

 

Prescription drugs were $5.

 

There was no HMO or other gouging middleman to deal with, and little

paperwork involved in being referred to a specialist.

 

I understand that Japan spends less than HALF per capita of what we do

on health care, despite its aging population, and still they manage to

cover EVERYONE, while we only cover about 60% of the population.

 

*Yeah, National Health Care in Japan, and in European countries with

similar systems is a dismal failure.

 

After all, it totally fails to generate huge profits for overpaid

CEOs, shell-gaming HMO's and redundant " Health Care Access

Administrators " .

 

We'd best never emulate those commie systems. After all, who wants to

live in a country where everybody's healthy?

 

Just wait till one of your lower-paid co-workers comes down with say,

kidney disease, and then you and everyone in the office can just have

bake sales and car washes to pay for his care. That's the way to do it!

 

Or if you're really lucky, he just won't mention it for shame of being

unable to afford health care, and he'll just die quietly and save you

all the trouble,

 

Oh, thank you George Bush for your wonderful health savings plans. I

can't wait until you take away the employer deduction for health care

and rid us of those pesky benefits once and for all.

 

After all, it's not like we can already put money in a tax-deferred

account right now, is it?

 

And EVERYONE has a couple hundred EXTRA bucks lying around at the end

of every month to sock away, right? http://www.democraticunderground.com/