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Why America should have a National Health service

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Apart from the obvious reason that healthcare should be seen as a human right, think of the biggest benefit, no more spam about pharmaceutical products! Seriously, with national health and getting drugs for the flat fee prescription fee there would be no point in people trying to sell cheap drugs through spam. Looking at our spamjam database I think that would get rid of about 75% of our spam.

Posted by Carl Tyler On 03/03/2005 | Permalink |

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1 - Joking aside, the McMerican health insurance industry swallows a very large slice of revenue aimed at hospitals.
And AIDS - an expensive desease of the poor - has forced Medicare - the "NHS of the States" to the brink of collapse.
Shame that the worlds largest economy doesnt deal with its poor or its elderly when they become ill. And Senators organise bus-trips for seniors to go to Canada to score cheap (prescription) drugs.

Capitalism works in some respects - say in Business. But healthcare ? Perhaps not.

---* Bill

Posted by Wild Bill At 06:38:00 AM On 03/03/2005 | - Website - |

2 - Actually, the US system is not perfect, but it's better than most....

I've been meaning to write about this for a while, my full thoughts here:

http://bbenz.typepad.com/mundobenzo/2005/03/healthcare_usa_.html

Posted by Brian Benz At 12:53:33 PM On 03/03/2005 | - Website - |

3 - According to the World Health organization the US health care system is clearly lagging behind most of Western Europe. This was done using agreed upon metrics such a infant mortality rates, life expectancy as reported by the census bureaus. I guess if we could find a way to remove the 50 M people with no insurance, and the minorities from the statistics , I'm sure the US would be in line with the rest of the world.
A quick search on google shows plenty of study confirming the overall modest performance of the US health care system compared to the rest of the world.

For instance...

http://dll.umaine.edu/ble/U.S.%20HCweb.pdf

Posted by US health care System is the most expensive, better than most not so sure At 08:22:15 PM On 03/03/2005 | - Website - |

4 - We're lagging behind Europe because we have access to more crap to kill ourselves with, not because the healthcare system is failing us. We're failing ourselves. Eat some more friggin' McFat, eat it all the time, and see what happens.

Healthcare and capitalism go together very well, it all depends on your perspective. You look at stats from an individual point of view, but do you consider the advancements in heart treatments due to competition between Medtronics and St. Jude? No.
Where's Western Europe in that mix? They come up with anything lately? Seriously, have they?

Apparently, Europeans are more accepting of having every aspect of their lives controlled by their governments, or are they not? (Not being obnoxious, just asking).

We won't have nationalized healthcare in the US, ever. We won't have it as a right, ever. Not because of the insurance industry, and not because of the healthcare industry. It's because lawyers run the goverment - you think they're going to cut their colleagues out of that pie?