Reply #53: Only remember Carter...?

[ExPatLeftist]

Were the nineties a blackout for you, or...?

I would suggest that you look at the MANY nations that have "socialized" medical care, in an unbiased way, and see how they are doing... As someone that has lived in a few countries (and stayed for long periods of time in several others) with national healthcare systems, to me your assertion as FACT that it "cannot be sustained long-term financially or logistically" seems (to me) extremely closed-minded in the face of so many examples to the contrary worldwide. Many countries with much higher standards of living than the US have national healthcare systems, and the care received is often rated better than that received in the US (which is also NOT received at all by over 47 million Americans). And before anyone brings out the wait-time chestnut, there is nothing to back that up and my experience (anecdotal, I know) is that wait times in the US tend to be longer than in nations with national healthcare.

When you state, as a fact, something which is not provable and has in fact been disproven the world over, which also happens to be the same talking point, stated as a fact (and without anything to back it up), by much of the furthest right talking-head punditocracy in the nation, you are bound to run into some dissent.