Why does this country not have universal health care? Why do we endorse a system where only the well-to-do can receive basic health services and allow the remainder of the population to grow sick and to die?
If you're on this site, odds are you're pretty well off, in a relative sort of way. We're securely within the system, although despite many of you who may live without health insurance. But what happens if you're in a serious accident and you're either not covered or not fully covered? I once paid over $1,000 out of pocket because of a simple eye infection. A specialist diagnosed me and prescribed an antibiotic drop in less than 20 minutes.. for $1,000!
I can't even begin to understand the scope of what a months-long hospitalization would cost. Did you know that medical costs are the number one cause of personal bankruptcy in our country?
The demogoguery of America and its freedoms have led us all to believe that beaurocracy is necessarily evil, inefficient, and will lead to inevitable collapse. In the mean time we've allowed heath care to be a commodity that is priced with little more regard than gasoline or M&Ms or Levi's jeans. But we live in the only industrialized nation in the world that doesn't have SOME kind of universal health care, a service that is fundamentally in the best interest of the ENTIRE population.
I simply do not understand.
Q: Is universal health care a basic right of the modern citizen?
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If you're on this site, odds are you're pretty well off, in a relative sort of way. We're securely within the system, although despite many of you who may live without health insurance. But what happens if you're in a serious accident and you're either not covered or not fully covered? I once paid over $1,000 out of pocket because of a simple eye infection. A specialist diagnosed me and prescribed an antibiotic drop in less than 20 minutes.. for $1,000!
I can't even begin to understand the scope of what a months-long hospitalization would cost. Did you know that medical costs are the number one cause of personal bankruptcy in our country?
The demogoguery of America and its freedoms have led us all to believe that beaurocracy is necessarily evil, inefficient, and will lead to inevitable collapse. In the mean time we've allowed heath care to be a commodity that is priced with little more regard than gasoline or M&Ms or Levi's jeans. But we live in the only industrialized nation in the world that doesn't have SOME kind of universal health care, a service that is fundamentally in the best interest of the ENTIRE population.
I simply do not understand.
Q: Is universal health care a basic right of the modern citizen?
Word of the day: prion (n) - a protein particle that lacks nucleic acid and is believed to be the cause of various infectious diseases of the nervous system (as bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease). AKA, the cause of Mad Cow Disease. Because it is neither a virus nor a bacteria, scientists have yet to discover how to adequately destroy it or understand it. Fortunately, you have to literally eat infected brain matter to obtain the disease.
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oh yes, do an A.I post you will have more to say than I did I bet. That MIT site on AI rocks, No? the MIT site is bad ass in general me thinks.
have you been watching Taken on the SciFi channel?
on the evolution of machines and humanity. who knows where it will end. i wish i could live forever and see it all unfold. on the other hand maybe not. *shrug* have you ever read Azimov's Robot series... those Robots were programmed to not harm humanity.
Q: Healthcare.
A: Yes.
2 must have for a modern society (beyond safety and "laws")
1. Universal education.
2. Universal healthcare.
Take care of folks when they are young and old.
Good:
More care=Less fear of death and hording of money.
Currently, Public dollars fund private profit in the drug industry.
More health care for all.
Bad:
Some people won't make as much money (not nec. bad, but people with money = power to make the laws...)
Lesser quality of healthcare.
Sticking points....
Maintain private practices for those who can afford/want tailored care... (as in private schools cater to certain tastes, and provide more personalized attention.)
Don't let health care go down the shitter like education did. Less military (which currently recieves 75% of your taxes - you read Noam C.), more health. More life and less fear of it, less death and less fear of it.