Do you not understand the difference between Quality of Care and Coverage
Yes, I do. And those rankings address BOTH. You are ranking quality of care far too high, with little thought for coverage.
You have frigging support crews who normally would be over in 3rd world countries catering for your poor for god's sake. Name another developed nation that isn't in a war that does that???
I would take capitalism over socialism any day. Where the hell do you live? With Chavez
I'm not pushing socialism you d***head. If you had to give a leftist/rightist label to me I'm a frickin' centerist. Your country is pushed so far over to the right that its killing its citizens. I'm suggesting a left-ward nudge... that's not socialism. That's a nudge back towards the middle.
Or are you Chavez? What extreme is ever desirable besides energy drinks?
What have I said that makes you think I'm a socialist? At any point in time. The fact is that your country is so whacked out to the right that it looks at the middle like its an extreme.
The government equals one entity. That entity would have no competition. No competition leads to a decrease in quality and efficiency. Economics 101 there.
I'm not suggesting that public health care be the only option you imbecile... but its been clear for a loooooong time that you need a decent public option.
Why do you think the health system is becoming so corrupt? Because there's nothing there to keep them honest, they're pushing profit to the point where its harming the people through inefficiency.
I am not against a public option. I could put it in huge letters like you did down there but I'm not childish. However, with the current administration, it would lead into universal healthcare and the dissolving of the private sector. Obama is even on the record saying exactly that.
I put it in huge letters because you either weren't reading what I was saying, or you were ignoring it, or your comprehension skills were too poor to get the gist of what I was saying.
IF Obama is considering universal public health-care I wouldn't be as in favour of that. But I've heard nothing air-tight barring speculation from ultra-right conservatives saying that.
That said, universal public health is probably still a preferable to your current system from a utilitarian point of view. Even if it would be far from ideal.
If you could find ANYWHERE where I've suggested you said that, let me know...
Can you tell me where I said othewise? Can you tell me where I said the doctors were the problem. I will just say 'duh' like you did.
You didn't. But you WERE attempting to divert the discussion from being about health care in general to just discussing the quality of your doctors and saying that that alone should be enough to have you ranking higher than 38. It doesn't work that way and nor should it.
That thing up there which you questioned with whether I understand the difference between coverage and quality... that was an analogy, the point of which was to expose the flawed logic you're shovelling.
The quality of your doctors is great.
In terms of their ability to aid society, they're inefficient.
This is not the doctor's fault.
It IS the fault of your current health system.
You have socialized medicine. The ER rooms here are the closest resemblance to socialized medicine in this country. The waits in Canada and Europe for procedures is ridiculous. You have to wait to see a doctor and some people wait hours and hours just to get a checkup. That equates to our ERs.
We don't have socialized medicine.
We have a public option and people can also choose to go with a private option. I mean, for God's sake I said I have private health cover myself as well as the public option. (But I guess that's just another case of you not reading...)
Socialized medicine would involve the dissolvement of private health.
If you can point to an occasion where I've suggested that that be a good idea, feel free.
It also might go a long way towards making your "Chavez" remarks come of as something less than pure ignorance.
But that's the thing... you're not reading anything I'm saying. You've already formed your own opinion and I doubt very much if there's anything I can say to change it.
