Sick around the world.

[and-justice-for-all]

5 Capitalist Democracies and how they do it. There are pros and cons to every NHS, but compared to the cons that these countries have, it is still 100% better than what we, the US, is stuck with.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/

Frontline correspondent T.R. Reid was online Wednesday, April 16 at 11 a.m. ET to discuss his film "Sick Around the World," which examines how five other capitalist democracies -- United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland -- deliver health care, and what the United States might learn from their successes and failures.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/04/08/DI2008040802824.html?nav=rss_business/industries

[sandnsea]

1. They all regulate payments

It was a great program as long as we get the right message - every country sets the amount of medical reimbursement and prescription prices. If we don't get that clear, then we will never have an affordable health system.

[fasttense]

2. If government wont regulate corporations, then corporations will regulate the government. n/t

[bobbolink]

4. And they do it very well. It's called FASCISM.

And we're there.

Yet, where is the outcry?

:cry:

[Hand]

3. I like the way he summed it up.

Roughly, "If you're in the VA system, it's like Britain. If you have health insurance, it's like Germany. If you're one of the 47 million uninsured, it's like any other poor country." :toast:

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. And the claim is we need our 'system' so that we can innovate and

create - yet all five of those countries are home to very successful pharmaceutical and medical technology companies.

[and-justice-for-all]

6. Regardless of the cons...

something has got to be done here. Why do we allow corporations dictate to us? There needs to be far more Government oversight in sectors like Health Care as well as Electric, Petrol and natural gas. Things that should never have been privatized.

I understand that a complete socialist society is no going to work, but neither is a total capitalist society for that matter, there has to be 50/50 between Socialist in some places and capitalist in others.