It’s so sickening to watch the amount of misinformation that people base their opinions on. The perfect example of this is the current discussion that’s been started or let’s say continued by Michael Moore’s recent movie ‘Sicko‘. To begin with I can’t even grasp why people have a problem with universal healthcare. Is it really so hard to live with the assurance that if you’re sick you can go to the doctor without having to worry about whether you have an insurance card on you?
The other problem I’m having is the fact that the discussions the opponents of universal health care are having are based around utter misconceptions and misinformation. I personally lived in Germany for nearly 27 years. Although I was never a German citizen I enjoyed the use of the system from birth on. I was a very sick child when I was growing up. Plagued by Asthma and skin diseases and if my parents had been in this country at the time they surely would have gone bankrupt over my illnesses. It would be completely unimaginable to think that any family in Germany would go around putting up donation jars for their sick children. They would just take their child to the appropriate hospital and the treatment would start.
All of that is still actually beside the point. The main point I’m trying to get at is the fact that opponents of the universal health care system put forth a level of ignorance towards the actual circumstances in countries that do have this type of system in place that it makes me sick. When all arguments fail they claim that waiting lines were long, that the level of care wasn’t as good. Stop it with the lies. I’ve lived in the system, there is no inferior care, no waiting lines and it’s always available! Even when I was unemployed I didn’t have to worry about my Respiratory problems causing me financial hardship.
I guess the main problem here is that people blindly believe what people say on TV. Even if that information is complete garbage. It’s the easiest way to make the argument I guess, by just calling the system that would follow something inferior. I’m not quite sure how anything, any type of system could be anything worse than what’s in place currently.
When I walk around this nation I see people that clearly have health issues that they can’t take care of. I see people walking into pharmacies that realistically should be in doctors or hospital ER’s. Instead they’re getting only thing we have to offer for people without insurance and that’s superficial treatment.
There used to be a time when the fire department only served houses that paid the insurance. In the even that your house was on fire and you should not be a paying customer, hour house would burn down. Is this really the type of health insurance an industrialized country in the 21st century should have? Can someone explain to me how we’re still number one as a country in the world with a health care system that only treats the wealthy?
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I have lived without health insurance for years, and it bothers me everyday. If I get sick or break an arm, I am screwed. I agree health care needs to change, most types of insurance need a rearrangement of some sort. The customers who can afford to pay the high rates, and have the best policies (usually people based on health, and are already healthy themselves) are the only ones that can afford the insurance, and in truth these folks could afford not to have insurance.
It makes me sick to think that we live in a country where the government can simply keep it’s own people from having a basic right such as being able to see a doctor.
Makes me want to go see that movie sicko though? Was it any good?
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