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Originally Posted by travelguy
i have neighbors and friends here in the villages who are also canadian citizens. i hear no complaints about the healthcare system that they are part of. it is unconscionable that in this country there are many, many people without any healthcare options. the canadians that i know cannot understand how any civilized society would deny healthcare, and leave it all up to the individual. hats off to obama and the congress for passing the healthcare initiative; just think of how much better off we would be already if hilary clinton's plans had been put into place when she was first lady. we would already have healthcare for all!  |
Mandating that everyone gets an insurance card--either public or private--is not health
care. Health
care is a physician and other clinicians assessing one's health condition, diagnosing, and treating acute and chronic ailments.
Health
care is not the ownership of a card that says somebody else will pay the bills.
The Washington DC politicians are doing
nothing to assure that there are enough required residency training positions of new medical school graduates, so that there are actually doctors who can SEE all the people with that shiny new public or private insurance card in their wallets.
Instead, they have passed a 2700-page law containing everything but the kitchen sink, that puts us and our kids and grandkids in trillions of dollars of unfunded liability/debt, without increasing the
already too-few required, residency-training positions needed to make even a DENT in the
existing shortage of primary-care doctors.
As a Canadian supreme court judge stated a few years ago, "Access to a wait list is not 'healthcare'". And our politicians in Washington remain CLUELESS, because they know they can win votes from gullible people who believe their Santa Claus promises about "free" "healthcare" for all, when they're really talking about a free "card" with no MONEY behind it and no doctor to see you for even 2 minutes.