fc2112 said:
I'm generally against socialized healthcare, but the private healthcare industry keeps trying to sell me on the idea.
It will be far worse. You're taxes will triple and you won't be able to see a doctor for much of anything.
I read somewhere that 50% of Canadians now have their own private health insurance b/c the cannot get treatment under the gov. plan. So they go to the same gov. facility, after hours, to see the same doctors that work for the gov., but are now on "their own time" to get treetment.
Personal story, son tore his ACL at a football game. Saw a surgeon the next day, had MRI 4-days later (had to wait over the weekend) and had surgery to repair it 3-weeks later. Took that long b/c surgeon said swelling needed to go down.
In Canada, he's have been waiting months just to see the surgeon, more months to get the MRI and since he does not technically need an ACL to work or live, the gov. med plan could have denied the surgery. Even if they did approve it, again, months to get it repaired. He was healed and thru physical therapy int he time it would have taken him to get treatment in Canada or the UK.
The UK came out about 5-years ago and old obese people and smokers they would not get some non-life saving treatments until they lose weight and/or stop smoking. Not a bad idea really, but it was for cost reasons, not b/c they wanted them to get healthy.
IF the gov. controls your healthcare, the control you. Oh, sorry mr FC2112, you made a post we didn't like on Texags...we're going to have to consider weather or not your child really needs that medical treatment.
The VA in AZ had a waiting list for vets for treatment. They lost the list twice. Vets died waiting on treatment on a list that got lost twice. You really want that?
Imagine going to the DMV, only it's to get in to see a Dr. That's what you'll get with gov. run healthcare.
We don't have health insurance in this country. We have health maintenance plans. If our car insurance was like health insurance, it would cost 5x as much and our oil changes would be a the same $59,99, but now it's a co-pay and the insurance gets billed $800 and the 'agreed amount' is $200.