Healthcare reform

*Anarky* · 09-10-2009, 05:37 PM

I seriously have no mercy for the rich.

On another note. The whole system you lot are fighting so fiercly over has been reality over here for about ninety years. It's evolved into a sort of semi-privatized thing and it works pretty well. Over here, you get a bill at the end of the month and you pay that bill. It's not that much, really. And if you can't pay it, there's plenty of rich folks who pay way more and so you can still go to the doctors if you need it. However, I'd like to do it via taxes, to be honest, that would be really fair. But I suppose there wouldn't be profit in a fair system.

What's neat, too, is that the insurances get special discounts in hospitals, so while you'd pay $12000 to get your arm in a cast, the insurance has to pay considerably less, which once again shifts the baggage off the actual sick people.

Granted, Americans don't really like caring for each other, as voiced here and everywhere else, and they're apparently still afraid of communism, which is ridiculous, but it does work and it does a whole lot of good. And I'd be willing to say that a lot less people die because of it. And whatever keeps people alive is okay in my book.

09-10-2009, 05:37 PM	#11
Anarky Outlaw Hero Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Tannhauser Gate Posts: 4,867	I seriously have no mercy for the rich. On another note. The whole system you lot are fighting so fiercly over has been reality over here for about ninety years. It's evolved into a sort of semi-privatized thing and it works pretty well. Over here, you get a bill at the end of the month and you pay that bill. It's not that much, really. And if you can't pay it, there's plenty of rich folks who pay way more and so you can still go to the doctors if you need it. However, I'd like to do it via taxes, to be honest, that would be really fair. But I suppose there wouldn't be profit in a fair system. What's neat, too, is that the insurances get special discounts in hospitals, so while you'd pay $12000 to get your arm in a cast, the insurance has to pay considerably less, which once again shifts the baggage off the actual sick people. Granted, Americans don't really like caring for each other, as voiced here and everywhere else, and they're apparently still afraid of communism, which is ridiculous, but it does work and it does a whole lot of good. And I'd be willing to say that a lot less people die because of it. And whatever keeps people alive is okay in my book. __________________ Because it's... I dunno... brutal.