[quote=spdrun]Imagine if we cut 50% of the funding to the military and its associated parasites and spent the public money saved on providing health care to all Americans… Plenty of wasted public money in the violence industry. I’d rather my tax money be spent prolonging lives (even those of > 80 year olds) than murdering brown people abroad and abusing people in this country in the name of some “war on drugs.”
This being said, my grandmother was hit by a truck crossing the street in London at age 76 or so. She received very good care from the UK medical system and ended up living another 21 healthy years. “Socialized medicine lets old people die” is horseshit — if anything, private insurance has more motive to let more expensive patients go than a public service does.[/quote]
Fuck you and your horseshit. Everything is very black and white to you.
Every other post from you is some nasty little opinion… Every heard of a debate?
My friend who is british doesn’t believe the same as you and I would say he is far more qualified to give an antedotal then someone who has never been treated by the system.
He is equally entitled to his opinion.
Of course in the case of your grandmother getting hit by the truck they are going to do something… The goverment is not just going to let her die in the streets or even on the operating table.
For him it was about the attention to the elderly in day to day circumstances. The lack of preventative care that could prolong life.
In his case the doctors are not making anymore money whether they care about you or not. Whether they go the extra mile to treat you.
That is not the case here in america. The insurance companies my try to deny the claim but the doctor is out to “upsell” his services. That leads to somewhat better medical care though the doctors intentions are not altruistic. Haven’t you noticed your dentist doing this?
