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<blockquote data-quote="LarryBird" data-source="post: 3968156" data-attributes="member: 76548">No <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2&nbsp; &nbsp; :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> it&#039;s funded by everyone who pays taxes, c&#039;mon man. Nobody&#039;s saying it&#039;s not paid for somehow.Don&#039;t believe the propaganda about shortages and long lines. The people in these countries in general are extremely satisfied with their healthcare systems, much more so than the US in most cases. They&#039;re also healthier as a society taken as a whole than we are in most cases as well, as they focus on prevention instead of treatment after the fact. Obviously some of the countries are better than others but that&#039;s to be expected in any field or area of expertise.Our healthcare system measures up poorly to a lot of those countries in a whole variety of different measures. And obviously, it rates well in some as well. The fact is, society as a whole would be better off. People wouldn&#039;t die waiting for insurance companies to finally approve tests and procedures on a cost/benefit analysis or just flat out hoping to outlast you and/or frustrate you into giving up and going away. Lawyers would not have to be called to get a <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2&nbsp; &nbsp; :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />ing mri or whatever odd thing done - they just do it - because it&#039;s the right thing to do and because the cost of healthcare in these places is so much cheaper because you&#039;re not subsidizing those who are uninsured through your own insurance premiums. In other words, no $20 advils or $50 band-aids.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LarryBird, post: 3968156, member: 76548"] No :censored: it's funded by everyone who pays taxes, c'mon man. Nobody's saying it's not paid for somehow. Don't believe the propaganda about shortages and long lines. The people in these countries in general are extremely satisfied with their healthcare systems, much more so than the US in most cases. They're also healthier as a society taken as a whole than we are in most cases as well, as they focus on prevention instead of treatment after the fact. Obviously some of the countries are better than others but that's to be expected in any field or area of expertise. Our healthcare system measures up poorly to a lot of those countries in a whole variety of different measures. And obviously, it rates well in some as well. The fact is, society as a whole would be better off. People wouldn't die waiting for insurance companies to finally approve tests and procedures on a cost/benefit analysis or just flat out hoping to outlast you and/or frustrate you into giving up and going away. Lawyers would not have to be called to get a :censored:ing mri or whatever odd thing done - they just do it - because it's the right thing to do and because the cost of healthcare in these places is so much cheaper because you're not subsidizing those who are uninsured through your own insurance premiums. In other words, no $20 advils or $50 band-aids. [/QUOTE]

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