As a friend of mine is going to struggle financially with health care costs and no insurance, socialized medicine rears it's ugly head. This is not isolated, hell hillary lives off this like the minotaur in a virgin.
And as people hold Great Britain's "perfect" example of caring for the sick, this comes up:
Outrage over organs ‘sold to foreigners’
THE organs of 50 British National Health Service donors have been given to foreign patients who have paid about £75,000 each for private transplant operations in the past two years, freedom of information documents show.So, coffers and caskets get filled.The liver transplants took place at NHS hospitals, despite severe shortages that mean many British patients die while waiting for an organ that could save their lives.
The documents disclose that 40 patients from Greece and Cyprus received liver transplants in the UK paid for by their governments. Donated livers were also given to people from non-European Union countries including Libya, the United Arab Emirates, China and Israel.
The surgeons who carry out the transplants receive a share of the operation fee — believed to be about £20,000 — as all the work is done privately in NHS hospitals.
It goes without saying we have a broken health care system in this country. And I have no immediate answers. If I did I would be out making a my money as a consultant. But a nationalized system is still subject to corruption. Are we willing to forfeit better specialized care for general maintenance? Nobody wants to see a sick uninsured child get worse or die due to a lack financial resources/care. But aren't there better answers? Yes, meds are cheaper in Canada, but when you are in dire straits, you scoot south to the Continental 48.
I would expect Cameron of the Tories to use the pay for kidney scandal in the next Prime Minister's Q & A at P-Funk.
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Medicare is "socialized" medicine.
It works--but not without problems.
There is no perfect solution. None.
But screaming "socialism" doesn't solve anything.
We have to work to get this thing right.
I personally know families that have no health insurance because the father lost his job just recently and the mother's part time job doesn't cover them.
I also personally know a woman who had breast cancer and was without insurance--she managed somehow to get help--when she was cured, every insurance company she went to to get insured again rejected her because of a "pre-existing" condition.
WE ARE THE ONLY WESTERN DEMOCRACY THAT DOESN'T HAVE NATIONAL HEALTHCARE.
Why?
shaw, it could be the higher taxes.
it could be fear in decline of specialized care or quantity.
lobbyists.
this affects everyone and what we pay now.
I work in health care as an ER RN so I have some insight. I am against government run health care because I think it is highly innefficient. We do need something though. I've thought maybe vouchers for private insurance?
The government in charge of anything is never the answer.
and as the article points out, there are still blatant inequities in the NHS by those who call the shots in the hospital
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