I agree that it's pretty awful
in that it doesn't really change much. We needed real changes but too many politicians are owned by the insurance companies that I am not convinced that any real change will ever come. Things should be a little better for some people but in reality, health care is still a for profit business in teh us and people who cost too much money or interfere with profits will not be treated the way they should.

We need a single payer system like your NHS. Sure there may be problems with the NHS, but from what I have read, anyone can get preventative care, prenatal care, and no one is thrown out of the hospital for lack of funds. In the US hospitals have been shown to refuse patients, and in a couple of cases actually took patients who had received some emergency care and dropped them off in the middle of the slums in Los Angeles in their hospital gowns because they hospital didn’t want to treat someone without insurance.
insurance.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 11:21, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

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too many politicians are owned by the insurance companies

Heh. Quite how Joe Beiden can sleep is beyond me. Oh, wait. He has a bed made of kickbacks. That'll be it.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 11:28, Reply)