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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
Well, guess what? So what?! By it's very nature the state healthcare system is aimed at those less well off. It is a COMPLIMENTARY service to private health care. It is not meant to replace private health care, and no one implies it is. If you can pay for treatment to get it quicker, then good for you. You're lucky. Stop complaining about and threatening to remove a service that allows many others to get the same treatment without paying for it or because they can't afford it. They may have to wait in a line, but so what? Either improve the service, reduce the waiting lists or (in some cases) subsidize their direct referral to private practitioners. Do not abandon the whole system because it can't satisfy every single person at a moment's notice.
Mr Mephisto
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i think you're kidding yourself here. socialized healthcare is certainly billed as a complete healthcare solution. if it weren't, then the countries who do have socialized healthcare would have the infrastructure to treat the cases that people travel to the U.S. for. If people honestly thought they'd have to foot the massive bill it will require and then
expect long lines and very basic service... there would even less support than what it is getting.
What little support socialized medicine gets is from those who believe it will function as well as their idealized concept of it expects it to. take that away and you'll cut the slight tenuous hold the idea garners here in the U.S.