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Northern_Light

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33. We have the best healthcare system in the world if you can afford it.

Reply to snot (Original post)

Mon Dec 23, 2024, 02:56 PM

Dec 2024

We hear all the time about people coming to the US for medical care. I'm pretty sure those people are wealthy enough to afford it. Why else would Americans go overseas for medical care that they can afford.

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The best health care system in the world [View all] snot Dec 2024 OP

Ours evolved rather than was designed Turbineguy Dec 2024 #1

"Evolved" implies improvement. Siphoning patient $s to non-medical capitalists is not an improvement. erronis Dec 2024 #4

Agree. Codifer Dec 2024 #10

Any other system would help the poor and fail to enrich the wealthy. BadgerMom Dec 2024 #2

Excellent OP - preach. nt TBF Dec 2024 #3

100% this! pandr32 Dec 2024 #5

IIRC LogDog75 Dec 2024 #6

Thank you Dick Nixon WOLFMAN87 Dec 2024 #7

There is a tape. Blue Full Moon Dec 2024 #18

The other guy WmChris Dec 2024 #22

There is no SYSTEM in the U.S. elleng Dec 2024 #8

No system but a set of laws and regulations AlexSFCA Dec 2024 #14

Great summary - thanks. But maybe when Trump has annexed Canada as our 51st state TheRickles Dec 2024 #9

Signature mamacita75 Dec 2024 #20

Thanks. "Cowgirls" is a classic, and deservedly so. TheRickles Dec 2024 #21

Still, ACA was a massive improvement AlexSFCA Dec 2024 #11

K/R. Michael Moore's recent article on the US Heathcare Industry: appalachiablue Dec 2024 #12

Thank Joe Lieberman... Grumpy Old Guy Dec 2024 #13

Bingo!! Lieberman was a shameless sock puppet for the insurance industry. MMBeilis Dec 2024 #16

Remember death panels? Farmer-Rick Dec 2024 #23

and the "patient portals" that keep them from having actual humans answering phones, scheduling and Rx's. Evolve Dammit Dec 2024 #15

YES snot Dec 2024 #30

"...but for our lack of political will." J_William_Ryan Dec 2024 #17

But snot Dec 2024 #31

We need national healthcare. Beck23 Dec 2024 #19

One risk pool is a health care system. Multiple risk pools is an investment scheme. Ron Green Dec 2024 #24

The Preamble says... GiqueCee Dec 2024 #25

The good news is the entire House and a third of the Senate is elected every 2 years and of course the POTUS every 4 - walkingman Dec 2024 #26

I'm interested in an organization called Represent.Us - snot Dec 2024 #32

Started with the DixieCrats IbogaProject Dec 2024 #27

I'm going full-on Pollyanna with healthcare and current destructive policies of TSF duhneece Dec 2024 #28

Your function is to produce wealth and push it all up the pyramid before you die. Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2024 #29

We have the best healthcare system in the world if you can afford it. Northern_Light Dec 2024 #33

My DH is a mechanic; he fixes hospital equipment Bettie Dec 2024 #34

Better at being worse: Our old pre-Obamacare system. Festivito Dec 2024 #35