I am concerned because I have a friend who lives in Austria who had to wait four months for a mastectomy and the income tax there is at fifty percent. NO...honest, check on it.
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It isn't that in theory it is something good, but just like most things in theory, when a huge government adopts the practice, and greedy people and their lawyers get involved, not to mention those with NO moral compass, then it becomes a terrible mess and the quality of healthcare becomes not nearly as good. NOT anywhere close to what we are used to.
It is a glittering generality to say that people are just selfish who don't want it. That offends me. I don't want it because it doesn't work well at all. Your choices are gone. If we didn't have the choice to take our daughter to a skilled surgeon who had done dozens of corrections on supra valvar aortic stenosis, she wouldn't be here today.