While I'm sure that there are health care horror stories in any health care system in the world and there are plenty of folks who are happy with the systems the way they are, those recipients of the Canadian and U.K. Healthcare systems, most individuals of both systems are very dissatisfied with them.Quote:
Originally Posted by parabellum9
The U.S. Government has been offering universal healthcare to one particular subset of our population for some time now and it has FAILED miserably.
I'm speaking of the Indian Health Service. This is exactly what the U.S. government intended to ply on the rest of the population and it only has to provide healthcare service to <2 million Native American's - not 270 million as ObamaCare intends to do.
Ask ANYONE who has been a recipient of this "care" just what level of care they receive under this program and you'll get the same answer from nearly everyone - they'd get better care using old traditional holistic practices.
If this system is so great, then explain to me why the average life expectancy of Native Americans is 8 years less than the rest of the American population.
While we're at it, how about the Veterans Administration Hospital and medical service? While it has certainly come a LONG way from the horrid level of care that was afforded to our service members during and following the Vietnam conflict, it's still a far cry from the level of care you can currently, under our capitalistic system, receive.
Look at our government and the mess it's in. This is who you want running the system that is tasked to provide you with healthcare? Not me; keep it private.
