Barfly wrote:We each have common but fundamentally different views of the role of government in society. I believe that healthcare is a commodity and service
why does no other nation in the developed world agree with your point of view?
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Neither of us is nuts, we just have a difference in opinion. I do think your position is rediculously narrow minded and unsupported by facts, like your supposition that cradle to grave medicare for all is an improvement over what we have.
hell, quite likely BOTH of us are nuts, trying to post on this forum, but nonetheless: My points are VERY well supported by facts. The US has, by far, the most expensive per capita healthcare system in the world. At the same time, we rank 23rd in overall quality of outcomes on most every unbiased survey. We have lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, on and on. My supposition, as you call it, is based on one very real fact: Medicare has 1/10 the overhead of the lowest-profit margin insurers on the US market. You wonder about improvement over what we have? Heck, Cuba has better healthcare for working people than we have and that nation is poorer than dirt. Something, many things, are terribly wrong with US healthcare delivery. For folks like me, who can pay for the best, no problem, but heaven help you if you lose your coverage with a job loss at, say, age 50, and try to buy private coverage.
Pud thumps his fucking chest that he buys healthcare for his family, but he was a public employee for years, sucking at the taxpayer's teat, and I am willing to bet that coverage he pays for is available through his public service. This issue is about your fellow citizens going broke because they lost a job, or got denied coverage, or couldn't afford the premiums for a few months.
It matters to me, and it damn well ought to matter to you.
