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<blockquote data-quote="YukonGlocker" data-source="post: 2711387" data-attributes="member: 425"><p>Using most any metric of choice (e.g., cost per person--including both individual costs and taxes, quality of care, access to care, etc.), UK has one the best health care systems on earth. The Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia, Germany, and Sweden also have great systems (in comparison to the US). Are any of them perfect?...no. But if you consider the overall systems as they work for the entire populations that live there, they are years ahead of us. Anecdotes of a few people that come to the US doesn't demonstrate anything. Canada's health care isn't much better or worse than the US's, overall.</p><p></p><p>How much money would we save if consumers didn't have to pay every business/company in the country to handle health care?...probably enough that any increase in federal tax for a universal Medicare to be actually cheaper than what we pay now. And how much money would the average American save if he/she didn't have to pay for treatment?...again, probably enough that some level of increased federal tax would actually be a savings. Folks, our health care system is going to change. The system we've been using isn't sustainable...Obamacare isn't either. Whatever we end up with won't be perfect, but we desperately need something better than what we have now.</p><p></p><p>If you don't think there's anything wrong with the US health care system, you're either living a comparatively privileged life compared to the average American, or you've never experienced a large financial burden from health care (e.g., extended stay in hospital, cancer treatment, etc.). Most people that aren't blessed with a retirement insurance plan, and have to rely on Medicare, really suffer when it comes to access to quality health care and affordability of medicine. And these are just a few issues...they go on and on and on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="YukonGlocker, post: 2711387, member: 425"] Using most any metric of choice (e.g., cost per person--including both individual costs and taxes, quality of care, access to care, etc.), UK has one the best health care systems on earth. The Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia, Germany, and Sweden also have great systems (in comparison to the US). Are any of them perfect?...no. But if you consider the overall systems as they work for the entire populations that live there, they are years ahead of us. Anecdotes of a few people that come to the US doesn't demonstrate anything. Canada's health care isn't much better or worse than the US's, overall. How much money would we save if consumers didn't have to pay every business/company in the country to handle health care?...probably enough that any increase in federal tax for a universal Medicare to be actually cheaper than what we pay now. And how much money would the average American save if he/she didn't have to pay for treatment?...again, probably enough that some level of increased federal tax would actually be a savings. Folks, our health care system is going to change. The system we've been using isn't sustainable...Obamacare isn't either. Whatever we end up with won't be perfect, but we desperately need something better than what we have now. If you don't think there's anything wrong with the US health care system, you're either living a comparatively privileged life compared to the average American, or you've never experienced a large financial burden from health care (e.g., extended stay in hospital, cancer treatment, etc.). Most people that aren't blessed with a retirement insurance plan, and have to rely on Medicare, really suffer when it comes to access to quality health care and affordability of medicine. And these are just a few issues...they go on and on and on. [/QUOTE]
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