The evils of socialized medicine

[den]

I should add that I didn't pay for any of this (well, not in cash. Everyone above minimum wage pays a 1.5% tax) It was all bulk-billed to medicare.

Comments

[marmoe.livejournal.com]

Yay for evil socialized medicine. I am quite happy with what we have over here, too. :)

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[dhlawrence.livejournal.com]

Commie!

;)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Democratic socialist, if you please.

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

I will admit that when you first posted my absolute first thought at the list of medical care was oh shit and he just bought a house, indicating worry at the inevitable complete financial meltdown of combined medical expenses and a new mortgage. My second thought, shortly thereafter, was that you lived in a civilized country where that didn't happen to people.

I hope we fall to similar evil, and the sooner the better.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

The total cost came to a little over $2,000, plus whatever the biopsy pathology came to.

This is something I've never understood about "You Americans." One of my friends else-fora astonished me when he stated that "socialized medicine will "cause more problems than it solves." Why are you so afraid of medicare. And I've just been told that you already pay the 1.5% medicare tax. (see below) Why the hell don't you have medicare?

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

Don't ask me, I'm a pinko commie librul.

Our for-profit industry has enormous lobbying power and uses it to spread the half-truth that the for-profit model drives the medical research we lead the world in to save lives here and everywhere else on the planet... and that somehow that a: makes it a holy thing not to be tampered with and b: is completely incompatible with socialised medicine and for-pay extra insurance as has been proven to work elsewhere.

We've elected someone who wants to fix it, based in part on his own personal family experience in insurance companies screwing over the dying. We'll see if the status quo lets him.

[fenris-lorsrai.livejournal.com]

Here in the US the employee AND the employer each pay 1.5% to Medicare... and we only cover a tiny percentage of the population that way. The majority of people have to pay that PLUS go out and buy private health insurance.

Very stupid.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Now that's just stupid. How can you not be covered if you pay?

Medicare will cover the basics for everyone. If you want extras --eg. a private room in hispital, a choice of doctors, ambulance coverage-- then you pay for private insurance. You don't have to buy insurance just to be covered.

[ms-interpret.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, that evil that helps people. It's the trickiest evil of all. :)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

It's INSIDIOUS!

[dabroots.livejournal.com]

I would love to pay 1 1/2 cents out of every dollar I earn and get comprehensive health care in return. There are people dying every day in this country because they have none. I have it at least for only another month, but only if I visit doctors at one particular hospital here in Pittsburgh. If I became ill or was injured outside the city, I'd be up the creek.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Everyone above minimum wage pays the 1.5% with a yearly cap of something like $1000. EVERYONE is eligible for medicare. If you want more than the basic medical coverage then you pay for private medical insurance. People living in multi-million dollar mansions on Sydney Harbour can get medicare if they want, which is fair enough since they paid for it.

[dabroots.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that Obama will be president for two terms, that we will have Democratic majorities in both houses of our Congress for all that time, and that a health care system similar to yours will result. Sooner, the better.

Nice post

[loushious668.livejournal.com]

Greetings, fellow Live-Journal keeper, really great entry, I bookmarked it.

Have you heard that Obama is giving away grants to those who earn under 120k/yr?

Here is the site you can get the grant from: www.Obama-Money.com (http://www.obama-money.com/)

Comment me back whenever you would like, I hope the link helped you as much as it helped me (I was able to get about $1,000 in a week because I earn 30k/yr at my job)

Not so Nice post

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

The link helped me not at all. He's not my president, and I'm not a US citizen. The only reason I can think that you found this is because you are doing a search for evil socialized medicine so you could either annoy Republicans or to shill for a group making money from this.