In today's episode of "Why government healthcare is a failure"
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If you ever need to understand government healthcare just look at the healthcare that politicians receive over VA care which those same politicians “fight for”. McCain is burning in hell for a platitude of reasons, his betrayal of veterans for decades and walking off with his senator healthcare package while thumbing his nose at the blatant malfeasance in VA healthcare for decades makes me wish his corpse was handed off to the most deranged necrophiliacs in existence and have them be told to go hog wild.
99% of the times you hear/read this it comes from someone who's not only not from here, but hasn't even been here, most of the times isn't even European. I mainly see US libtards use this bullshit talking point, everything is free in Europe we pay 0 taxes for it.
It's mostly Anglosphere people who do that: Americans, Australians, Canadians, &c. Notice, for instance, the Sanders campaign in 2016: 'socialism' is great because America will be like Denmark or Sweden (notice, not more like East Germany or some other basketcase: it would more harm than help the wannabee socialists of the world to uphold such states as examples).
That always struck me as simply misattributing the successes of high-IQ, homogeneous peoples to ideology.
If 'socialism' ever comes to America, it will be close to the dysfunctional Cuban, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan varieties, except without the social conservatism still defended by many of the Chavistas and Sandinistas. A Nicaragua writ large, but with far more homosexuals and transsexuals? People will be fleeing from rather than to that socialist America: Mexico will suddenly be wishing that America built that damn wall.
That is pretty retarded, but no one I talk to here wants the US system either. Most are fairly happy with the system as it is, although obviously they don't think it's perfect. Insofar as there is criticism, they think the problems are caused by not enough government subsidies.
As for me, I have no idea. This is too complicated for me. And it seems to me that close to everyone who comments on this issue is horrendously ill-informed.
It’s not a failure. It’s doing exactly what it was designed to do; take your money and give nothing in return.
Government health care is rationed health care. God help you if you have a less than common condition or one that is not easily diagnosed, there is a decent chance you end up dead before you actually receive meaningful aid.
I can find 10 times as many headlines about the US system. Not exactly the strongest argument.