Clearly, we as Americans receive some of the best healthcare available in the world
While America may offer some of the best healthcare in the world, I'd say most Americans don't receive it. Even those of us with insurance often have healthcare decisions made for us that are not necessarily what we or our doctors would think was best, and I know that I've sometimes gone without doctor visits or prescriptions because the copays are just too high or for other reasons. Like right now, I'm job-hunting and I keep postponing a mammogram because God forbid I was diagnosed with cancer and then got a new job and hence different insurance...pre-existing condition and I'd be shit outta luck.
Compared to other first-world nations, America usually ranks near the bottom in terms of healthcare. There's great healthcare here, but an awful lot of people have no access to it.
I don't know who can look at that system and say it's not broken
It was recently reported that $100,000 is not even half of what the McCains pay annually just for servants. So that tells you exactly what sort of person thinks there's nothing wrong in America.
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Date: 2008-08-29 06:34 pm (UTC)While America may offer some of the best healthcare in the world, I'd say most Americans don't receive it. Even those of us with insurance often have healthcare decisions made for us that are not necessarily what we or our doctors would think was best, and I know that I've sometimes gone without doctor visits or prescriptions because the copays are just too high or for other reasons. Like right now, I'm job-hunting and I keep postponing a mammogram because God forbid I was diagnosed with cancer and then got a new job and hence different insurance...pre-existing condition and I'd be shit outta luck.
Compared to other first-world nations, America usually ranks near the bottom in terms of healthcare. There's great healthcare here, but an awful lot of people have no access to it.
I don't know who can look at that system and say it's not broken
It was recently reported that $100,000 is not even half of what the McCains pay annually just for servants. So that tells you exactly what sort of person thinks there's nothing wrong in America.