>
>You should enjoy that you are a member of the two select groups in
>the US who have proper public medical coverage. My 26-year old son,
>currently splitting his time between Philadelphia and Colorado Spring,
>is currently dealing with the insanity of the US health insurance
>system.
>
The US health system by itself is not at fault, it's the people in it who
are mainly interested in their personal benefit, mostly monetary. It may be
due to our never having been run over and enslaved by the Norse, the Gauls, the
Romans, the Spanish, the French, the Germans, the Soviets, etc. That sort of
experience tends to unite a people to a common cause, hence the dominance of
socialist economies and governments in Europe and the demonisation of socialism
here in the colonies.
It's nothing new. Congress tried to derail Social Security in the 1930's,
only to have the Supreme Court declare it as legal, together with the Labor
Relations Board. The American Medical Association (AMA) threatened to defeat
the Social Security Act (SSA) in Congress if the provision for nationalised
health care was not removed. FDR gave in to that pressure so as to save what
remained. It's been a long uphill battle to regain that lost portion of SSA,
but now we have to deal with the social and economic factions that want to
ensure that it fails.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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