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CHICAGO - Americans are more likely than people in 10 other countries to have trouble getting medical treatment because of insurance restrictions or cost, an international survey of primary care doctors released on Wednesday found.
While the United States spends more than twice as much as other developed countries on healthcare, it lags well behind in key measures of quality, the annual survey found.
U.S. Spends Most, But Health Quality Lags (http://www.newsmax.com/us/us_healthcare/2009/11/05/282003.html - broken link)
This is because the medical community is making billions off of jacking up the prices of services. Which puts coverage out of reach for many in the U.S. I do find it humorous though that people are so against health care reform. Do they not realize how much money we spend comparatively to other industrialized, and non-industrialized nations? Do they not realize just how unhealthy we are in America because of this? These gullible people are just fed lies from the rich, in order for the rich to get richer. The "rich" only accounts for 5-10% of the US population. Obviously they wouldn't be very powerful without spreading their lies to the less fortunate and gullible.
CHICAGO - Americans are more likely than people in 10 other countries to have trouble getting medical treatment because of insurance restrictions or cost, an international survey of primary care doctors released on Wednesday found.
While the United States spends more than twice as much as other developed countries on healthcare, it lags well behind in key measures of quality, the annual survey found.
U.S. Spends Most, But Health Quality Lags (http://www.newsmax.com/us/us_healthcare/2009/11/05/282003.html - broken link)
One look into the yellow pages of your phone book will tell you one big reason why costs are so high - LAWYERS.
This is because the medical community is making billions off of jacking up the prices of services. Which puts coverage out of reach for many in the U.S. I do find it humorous though that people are so against health care reform. Do they not realize how much money we spend comparatively to other industrialized, and non-industrialized nations? Do they not realize just how unhealthy we are in America because of this? These gullible people are just fed lies from the rich, in order for the rich to get richer. The "rich" only accounts for 5-10% of the US population. Obviously they wouldn't be very powerful without spreading their lies to the less fortunate and gullible.
This statement in itself demonstrates the widespread naivete and gullibility promoted and propagated by the left.
If anyone will open their eyes, walk into any hospital emergency room on Saturday night, you will discover "free" health care in operation.
The legions of "lottery mentality" Americans are always looking for something for free, and health care is just one thing. They do not hesitate to crowd into hospital emergency rooms with merely a sniffle or a finger cut. People with true emergencies have a hard time getting treated. And it is not a result of all of these people not having a dollar; check their cupboards, their closets, and their cars, and you will see what they "invest" in.
Just wait until health care is "free" for everyone, and you will find out just how expensive it is.
This is because the medical community is making billions off of jacking up the prices of services. Which puts coverage out of reach for many in the U.S. I do find it humorous though that people are so against health care reform. Do they not realize how much money we spend comparatively to other industrialized, and non-industrialized nations? Do they not realize just how unhealthy we are in America because of this? These gullible people are just fed lies from the rich, in order for the rich to get richer. The "rich" only accounts for 5-10% of the US population. Obviously they wouldn't be very powerful without spreading their lies to the less fortunate and gullible.
Gullible, is allowing the morons in federal government to take over complete control of your health care.
Have you not seen the fraud, waste and indebtedness of the federally run Medicare program?? Gullible is encouraging the federal government to run national health care, after looking at how they run the health care of Medicare.
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Twice I have asked Alan Greenspan what he considers the greatest threat to the U.S. economy, and both times he has answered immediately with a single word: Medicare. He isn't so worried about the trade deficit and the housing crash; he figures market forces will sort them out. But Medicare is something else - a multitrillion-dollar problem that's about to get dramatically worse, and one that nobody wants to talk about.
Medicare will go into the hole even faster than official projections reflect. And they show that if Medicare had to be accounted for like a company pension fund, it would be underfunded by $34 trillion
This statement in itself demonstrates the widespread naivete and gullibility promoted and propagated by the left.
If anyone will open their eyes, walk into any hospital emergency room on Saturday night, you will discover "free" health care in operation.
The legions of "lottery mentality" Americans are always looking for something for free, and health care is just one thing. They do not hesitate to crowd into hospital emergency rooms with merely a sniffle or a finger cut. People with true emergencies have a hard time getting treated. And it is not a result of all of these people not having a dollar; check their cupboards, their closets, and their cars, and you will see what they "invest" in.
Just wait until health care is "free" for everyone, and you will find out just how expensive it is.
How is going to an Emergency room "free"? This post makes no sense. Face it, the American system of health care is broken, completely and utterly broken. If it's so great then why are we always near the bottom of everything from quality of life(medically speaking) to our high rates of infant mortality. I am disgusted by this current system in which the only ppl who can afford great health care are the wealthy. Tell me that's not sinister when the poor thru the middle class often suffer rather than accrue horrendous debt. What does it say about our society when only the wealthy are entitled to good health care?
Well -- most health care problems are due to obesity, lack of exercise, drinking and drugging to excess. People want to spend their money at liquor stores, buy meth from their favorite drug dealer, sit around playing video games, watching television for hours and still be healthier than anyone in any other country.
The healthiest people don't get healthy because they run to a doctor once a month, they are healthy because they ate right, exercized, didn't drink in excess and so on.
How is going to an Emergency room "free"? This post makes no sense. Face it, the American system of health care is broken, completely and utterly broken. If it's so great then why are we always near the bottom of everything from quality of life(medically speaking) to our high rates of infant mortality. I am disgusted by this current system in which the only ppl who can afford great health care are the wealthy. Tell me that's not sinister when the poor thru the middle class often suffer rather than accrue horrendous debt. What does it say about our society when only the wealthy are entitled to good health care?
It is completely free for many. Check it out. The millions of people here illegally pay zero when they go to an emergency room.
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