I know that sounds heartless, but there are things that could have been done to insure those 30 million without destroying the best health care system in the world.
HAHAHA LOL. Let me guess, you have never left the US for a period longer then 5 days, speak no second language and have not the slightest clue how other countries health care system works.
US health care is so fucked up, I still pay for my Swiss insurance although my School requires me to carry US insurance as well. And I have lived in the US for over 3 years now.
Do you truly believe a system in which the insurance company decides if you need that Meniscus surgery on the knee that has been hurting for 3 Months, the doctor said it was necessary also 3 Months ago but the insurance was "processing" your claim for this long? Happened exactly like that to a close friend of mine. Talk about conflict of interest.
Here's how the system works in Switzerland. Health Insurance is more like car insurance. You are required to have it. You can freely choose if you want to just be insured at the bare minimum (this means no private room, and a deductible over 5k but EVERYTHING is covered and not just what pleases the insurance) which costs about $80 a month for a healthy 25 year old OR if you want to get the best coverage out there that gives you fancy private rooms in hospitals etc. for a lot more.
The Insurance NEVER decided if you need a treatment. The doctor does, as it should be. The Doc says you need to get that done asap. You get it done. The insurance pays (unless obviously you get a boob job or something alike).
There are no waiting lists for doctors, old people don't get killed like Hannity preaches, and everyone is covered at least to a point that getting sick will not ruin you.
And to all those of you that believe that under the current system the rich aren't paying for the poor: My friend lost his Job a few months ago, and then got hit by a car (not his fault). His hospital bill was over 15k and since he had no job he had no health insurance (by the way, it's retarded to tie health insurance to a job). When he got the bill he called up the hospital and told them exactly that. They said: Okay, you'll just have to pay 5k. He said look, I can't pay at all. The hospital then simply dropped the bill because it would have accrued more cost to actually try to get money from him then they would have gotten.
Now who do you think pays for his bill? The hospital simply passes along the cost to those with insurance. Ever looked at at hospital bill? They are INCREDIBLY inflated so that the hospital can make up for their losses.
So the real reason why people can't afford insurance at the moment is that the price is inflated because of people that don't have insurance. See the irony in that?
I am very opposed to systems like the one in Canada and the UK. State run health care is a bad idea. The dead loss from not having competition is much too great. Thanks to the US media though which instead of talking about the facts is pulling shit out of their ass to get viewer numbers up. Ever watched Hannity? Do you truly believe he got into his current position being as stupid as he pretends to be on his show?
The two option system is a good way to solve the conflict of interest and will bring at least some government control to the system but instead of regulation by competition. If you had taken the time you'd realize that the current system is in no way sustainable. It's not just about insuring the 30 Million uninsured, it's about fixing a system that got corrupted by law makers in order to make the biggest profit possible for insurance companies.
