neikeel wrote:
Cannot and will not understand the rant in some parts of the US about having a health service that is free to everyone at the point of service.
it's undersandable that a socialised healthcare can be feared in a country where the big pharma industries are so powerfull , socialised healthcare have a tendency to make some things mandatory , and if lobbyists push some messy products on the one who control the whole thing , then the choice is no longer there .... I don't think it's all black and white between european socialised healthcare and the american way , both philosophies have good sense in them , but we can agree that both also have flaws ( this "human spare parts " wholesale trade is a big one in the cas of the us ) , it all depends on the context , i don't think one would work entirely in the country of another... The metaphorical way to express this would be to say that a ferrari with fucked up pistons goes at the same speed than perfectly tuned up east german trabant , but if i personally had to choose between those two cars i'd ditch them both
.... I feel americans really value the old capitalistic way of economical competition which tends to favor the best of the competitors , wether it's for buisness or even health , and that philosophy is a good one , but i feel too their nostalgia of the good old days of healthy competition between small enterprises make them loose the focus on nowadays' hard truth , we live now in a world of tricked games by mega corporation trusts who completely kill the competition , which results in a tsunami of cheap ass replacable products , and tired to the bone old concepts that are never renewed , i'd personally see adding a lil' bit of socialism in their enchilada more like keeping the out of control dog on a lead ... But it would be felt by them like a betrayal of the values which helped fund this country , which i'd understand ... Then again , i'm european , i see things differently , ya know , education and everything... Anyway this healthcare is a very complex problem , i don't think anyone could wrap all it's subtelties up in one 1000 words post ....
