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Originally Posted by willravel
NHS is rated one of the highest quality health care systems in the world. Maybe we should compare paying fat people to exercise to... say... 50 million Americans COMPLETELY uninsured. The fact that you're capable of overlooking a travesty in our system and concentrating on such a small problem in the NHS is telling about your bias. Yes, bias. You should take a step back and look at the bigger picture.
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I brought that up because of the claim that UHS ushers in a new age of health enlightenment, where no one becomes obese and everyone eats their vegetables.. and stops smoking. Its not true at all, and Europe in general, and many other places with UHS, are now starting to have the same problems with health and obesity that the US has struggled with. Our bad cultural habits are being exported, and I dont think switching us to UHC is going to reverse it.
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France, Italy, Singapore, Spain, Austria and Japan; all public healthcare, and all ranked as the best in the world. There really is no argument against this.
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Like I said before... get government spending under control, and help hold politicians accountable for how they spend and borrow and it may be a viable option. Right now, I dont even think we should entertain the idea at all.
And yea... I am bias against new government programs. Again... whats wrong with doing it at the state level first?