There have been more words written about Healthcare. I see no reason why we can't have a Canadian-style healthcare system in America, except for the faux issues that are raised.
"You won't be able to choose your doctor!". Can people do this now? Or do they have to go to the Doctor "on the plan", assuming they have a "plan"? When you're suddenly sick, do you go to your "Family Doctor"? Or is he/she booked up to where you go to a walk-in clinic?
I will never, never, never say that America has "the greatest healthcare system in the world". Why would I say this when so many cannot access its greatness for lack of funds, and others can't access it without going bankrupt? Go into your local ER sometime and check out the indigents there. You can see things like people with broken bones leaving with a splint, but the bone not really set, and a "referral" to an orthopedist for a consultation that they can't pay for (let alone the cost of the treatment). Or people with all sorts of missing teeth and gum disease that hasn't been treated and never will be. The last time I was there, I sat across from a middle aged lady with ongoing unmanaged asthma who had come down with bronchitis that she feared had turned into pneumonia; she was treating herself with over-the-counter inhalers because she couldn't afford the costs of seeing the doctor in order to keep her prescriptions up, and she couldn't afford the prescriptions with her present cost of housing. (She waited almost an hour before they brought her back to a room; a new privatized entity had taken over management of the ER.) She told me that she worked 50 hours a week, but this was at two (2) separate part-time jobs, neither of which offered health insurance.
I will say that I am not convinced that most Republicans, and even a lot of well-off Democrats, give a crap about the sick and suffering in America. They grouse about "Medicaid", but what is that grousing saying? Is that grousing their expressed desire to see the "welfare poor" suffer their illnesses without "costing them money" the way the working poor that don't qualify for means-tested healthcare do? All this talk about taxes and financial responsibility; I get that, but these folks who seem to hate universal public healthcare NEVER HAVE A PLAN FOR THE UNINSURED TO RECEIVE HEALTHCARE WITHOUT BECOMING DESTITUTE. They become defensive when they are accused of a posture of "Let 'em suffer!", or even "Let 'em die!", but, honestly, what to Ted Cruz's words imply? Or the words of the Death and Suffering Freedom Caucus?
And I will give a shout-out to Donald Trump on this. Trump is a guy that I believed understood that you can't have a middle class society when people are dying in the streets from lack of healthcare in great numbers, but his advocacies today are leading to just exactly that. He knows better, but he wanted a "win" and a political alliance, so he's abandoned what he appeared to know for being buds with Jim Jordan and that other moron from North Carolina whose name escapes me now. This is the main reason I state that I have not decided whom I will vote for in 2020 as of yet.
But, no, we don't have the greatest Healthcare system in the world. If we provide the most up to date Rolls Royces for the government bureaucrats of Cuba, they won't have the best automobiles in the world, either.
Fyck me when Trump supporter Fuzzy Bear can make better points than hack centrist dems.
