if socialized health care works in countries like great britain and australia and the netherlands why are americans unsure as to whether it will work or not? what are some major flaws with socialized health care?
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They think it will cost too much, which is funny because Britain has been funding it for over 50 years with no problems.
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we have more teens pregnancy, more drug addicts, more people with hypochondria, ect. what's right for them may not be right for us.
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Why do we need to follow other country's examples when the majority of our country is satisfied with health care as it is? The majority of Americans believe that health care has become too expensive, and are open to cost reduction measures. Not entitlements like socialized health care...we are not Europe and don't want to be.
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There are all kinds of problems that the Left refuses to acknowledge. In Germany, for example, doctors are paid less than 100K and are on the verge of a strike. Very few will enter Med school to make that amount of money. In Switzerland, Drug companies make their fortunes in the US, and then charge nothing there. Eliminate that and what happens? Cost are what they are.
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1. Huge cost over-runs adding to the national debt. 2. Thwarting the profit incentive to discover new "cures" 3. Government knowledge and involvement with personal (and very private) medical histories.
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its all about selfishness , it the old "i got mine, you get yours!" Reactionaries do not care to what happens to anyone outside their family circle, that is, until someone in their family gets some chronic disease, then they are crying for help.
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First of all, we have something Britain, Australia and the Netherlands don't have. Our Constitution. It clearly limits the power of the Federal Government and Socialized Health Care is definitely one of those things the Fed Gov is not allowed to do. On top of that, our Fed Gov's history of running large scale programs is abysmal. Post Office, Social Security, Medicaid/Medicare...all totally broke (i.e. out of money). The FACT that they have to start collecting taxes for 4 years to make it work for the next 6 tells you that their financing plans are not sustainable. And anyone who actually believes that this monstrosity will only cost $980 billion is a total fool. This thing will run 3-5 times that much (if not more).
