Originally Posted by djplong

Of course there is nothing in their agendas to 'keep America great' when it comes to health care.

WE ARE *NOT* GREAT.

We border on THIRD WORLD statistics!

There is no 'great' to KEEP!

There are things in this country that really require us to look elsewhere and see what other have done THAT WORKS. Unfortunately, for some, and as LOATHE as I am to admit it, socialized medicine in Western Europe IS working better than what we have here. That was NOT the case in the 1980s. What's the difference between then and now? How about the insurance companies putting their shareholders first and everything else at the bottom of the barrel?

We *had* a good system. Government interference (like the allocation system to determine the supply and makeup of doctors that teaching hospitals graduate), runaway Wall Street greed on the part of insurers, runaway legal costs, people increasingly having the "doctor is God and can cure anything" attitude, pharmaceutical companies advertising to PEOPLE instead of in medical journals with their ad costs going up astronomically - all of those (and probably a lot more) have resulted in our broken system.