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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was on a girls trip and all of them were doctors from the UK and Canada, except for my friend who is an American in the UK and a clinical psychologist. They could not wrap their heads around our healthcare system. They did not know how any America could sleep at night when one illness could send you into bankruptcy.[/quote]
+1 for all that's wrong with the NHS and Canadian healthcare, most of their citizens don't worry about medical bankruptcy.

Great medical care in the US is for the rich.
Good or decent medical care in the US is for the UMC who have good insurance.
Everyone else is just screwed.[/quote]

See I think this is the answer.  Healthcare is great for the rich and good to great for umc.  If you have great insurance then it is decent.  Nightmare for mc and broken for poor.  Not the treatment but the delivery.

It is unclear what the answer is.  [/quote]

There’s no way to provide healthcare for everybody. It’s either rationing with people dying or waiting forever or spending all your money for life saving treatment .

It’s called reality [/quote]

There is also something called research, and outcomes studies, and patient satisfaction. A lot of this international work has been done by The Commonwealth Fund and the Harvard School of Public Health. Turns out that when universal healthcare is actually well-funded and not financially gutted by the powers that be, people like it, and it works.

But you don't want to know about that, and I don't want to listen to you piss on things, so here we are. [/quote]

We are broke. Universal healthcare is a fantasy that would be a miserable failure with rationing. [/quote]

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