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Originally Posted by K-dogg
Do you work for free?
You should.
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Why and how is this related to what I was saying? Do firemen, ambulance crews, coast guard men, teachers, urban sanitation employees work for free?
Sure, volunteering helps, but if there should be a government it should at least provide a service and be responsible against citizens. Politicians don;t work for free either, we all pay them. If the responsibility to public health, safety education, hygiene, are not provided by government/society and we are all out for our own, there wouldn;t be much of civilization advancement, it would be a decline. Or is it?
In Sweden, minimum nutrition, sanitary living space, health services, are provided by government. It would be unthinkable for a Swede to have to pay for medical treatment. Their GDP/capita is not any higher than in the US, but there is no such thing as health insurance, private or government. Insurance means you put a price tag on a health service, a bowl of pills, and someone picks up the tab. The higher the costs are allowed to get the higher the cost of insurance. This doesn;t happen in places with a socialized health system. Doctors, nurses, are just employees. Whether they serve 10 patients a day or 1, they get their salary and go home at the end of their shift.
Do you want a real good example of socialized health care? US Armed forces! At least till Bush took a good whack on that system. All you needed was an ID of enlistment or being a dependent of an enlisted and there was no billing, no charging, no questions asked. What did it cost? Less than 1/4 per covered person than health care costs outside the system.
Infant mortality in the US is much higher than in Cuba. The US in now third in the American continent. There is no other country in the western industrialized world that is as bad as the US in some of the most important health statistics. It has now fallen between the civilized world and the impoverished third world. Check the factbooks, CIA, World Bank, UN, etc.
Even countries with less than a half of GNP/capita have better health statistics than the US.
Rocky, keep writing what you like, I will not address anything you talk about, keep cursing and threatening, I will simply ignore you. If you have anything to contribute to the debate please do for the shake of all, but don't expect any feedback from me.