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sharedvalues

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9. No. We get great healthcare and we spend a lot on it

Wed Jul 5, 2017, 10:27 AM

Jul 2017

The US has a great healthcare industry that delivers excellent care for those who can pay. We need to preserve the medical system in the US.

Our problem is with payment- GOP donors have decided that poor people shouldn't get help. Every other country in the world has decided healthcare is a basic human right.

Moreover, healthcare is actually a PROGRESSIVE system today in the US. If you have insurance (and many poor people do, through Medicaid and Medicare and other private insurance) you can go get treated at the best institutions in the world. You can go to MD Anderson or Stanford and get the best care in the world. You'd be in a room next door to the rooms of the very rich.

Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Our healthcare problem is that as a society we need to decide to pay for healthcare for people that can't afford it. The medical side of our system is in pretty good shape.

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The problem with healthcare in the US is that, on the macro scale, it's not used for medicine [View all] ck4829 Jul 2017 OP

Exactly. We have a class based health care system. Yavin4 Jul 2017 #1

Do not overlook healthcare in the U.S. being run largely by for profit corporations. Freethinker65 Jul 2017 #2

Centralization of healthcare is yet another factor ck4829 Jul 2017 #3

Seems that is an outline for class warfare. NCTraveler Jul 2017 #4

I know that the class war has been going on for a long time ck4829 Jul 2017 #5

According to Warren Buffett, the war is ongoing... Wounded Bear Jul 2017 #7

We do not have a health care system in the US... Wounded Bear Jul 2017 #6

DURec leftstreet Jul 2017 #8

No. We get great healthcare and we spend a lot on it sharedvalues Jul 2017 #9

Oh it's good, but suppressed by this control. ck4829 Jul 2017 #11

We expend a lot of resources to treat bucolic_frolic Jul 2017 #10

I'd argue it's being used as a cash cow - profit center more than social control. SpankMe Jul 2017 #12

It is also used to fuel powerful Oligarchs' profit engines. n/t TygrBright Jul 2017 #13

You stumbled upon the original arguments against social security and medicare IronLionZion Jul 2017 #14

What we are fighting DownriverDem Jul 2017 #15

That's all secondary. On the macro scale it's used mostly for one thing - to generate profits. thesquanderer Jul 2017 #16

Imo, an anti-Democratic trash piece in both senses of the word. Hortensis Jul 2017 #17