Look at my location. Full Stop.
Yes, our taxes are high.
Yes, our politicians are full Pinko Liberals (so am I as far as the yanks are concerned
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Yes, you get free healthcare. And fuck you to all who say you have to wait for a bone-set or cast. You are lying, or repeating a lie an HMO told you.
We wait for the things that are not painful, or really serious. We just choose to define what really serious is to maximize Social Marginal Benefit.
I am happy with my system, and I am really sorry that you got hosed with yours. Hope you aren't in too much pain. If it makes you feel better, someone in a location and financial position worse than you would have probably just had to 'walk it off' and suffered long-term effects.
Again, I love this community (TFP) and the members who have interesting things to say. As a global community, we have to take the good things from everyone, and help work out the bad.
I don't want to get into a "Our healthcare system is better than yours" flamewar. I have seen enough of those, and the rhetoric that is spewed forth from political agendas covers up the real pain that people go through on a daily basis.
I cherish my good health, I read literature to keep informed on healthcare issues, and pray when I go to sleep that people will work together to make this place better instead of fighting to further their own agendas. I don't know..... it is the best prayer I have come up with yet.