Originally Posted by DocRay
Actually, its worse than you think, 50M americans don't get any health care, and in some parts of urban USA, african-american kids are in worse shape than african kids.
I think that business practice is good for a lot of things: cars, running shoes, etc. But the profit has to be taken out of sick people. This whole "health care is only for the employed" idea is just nuts.
At one time, Fires were only put out by fire companies to paying customers, sounds insane now, but profit-driven medicine sounds insane to a lot of the world.
That sounds right because it's not that the unemployed/uninsured aren't treated. They're treated and then that cost is spread around to those of us who can pay and/or our insurnace agencies.
I think the real argument for nationalized healthcare is that it would allow Americans to democratically make decisions about controlling costs.
Honestly, in spite of all of our technological advances and great doctors/med schools, our healthcare system is a joke in Europe.