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[doc_moreau]

People are so stupid.
Though it is true everywhere, right now i am referring only to [a large number of] Americans. Goddamn!
People are so stupid. That is all.

OH NOOoooo, government takeover of healthcare NOOOOO!!!! IT IS THE END OF THE WORDL :O
NOOOOO, not teh evil, EVIL socialism!!!

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[shinigamigirl]

Well, I guess Canada is pretty evilly socialist! But aside from occasional annoyingly long waits at the emergency room, it's working out pretty well here. Just sayin'.

(And yes, I know that this reform is not at all the same system Canada has, but I do have to laugh at the people screaming socialism too. XD)

[doc_moreau]

Yeah, i have yet to hear any Canadians complain about their system really. Of course down here the opposing politicians do whatever they can to make it sound like Canada is some kind of healthcare wasteland where people wither away and die waiting to see doctors - and if they survive the wait, the doctor is so underpaid and undertrained that they die from their injuries :P
What a bunch of crap.

I'm hoping that what the administration in America has done is the first step toward finally joining the rest of the developed-world in the 21st century, healthcare-wise :P

[sekhmet]

its only natural that when something like this happens people are going to bitch and moan. Healthcare for everyone can only be a good thing. From my understanding, no one wants to pay extra for this. =/ Kind of sad, because when those guys get sick other people would be equally paying for them too down the line.

And yeah, that is bullshit. If someone has a bad enough issue, they just go straight to a private doctor, or based on their condition they get priority to less sick people.

[stormslegacy]

The irony is most european countries pay less for their healthcare (even when scaled so that the number of citizens is considered, etc) than America does NOW and technically America's system is supposed to be based on private insurers...include the bailouts and the costs of our system just grows and grows.

My only issue with the bill was that it was stupid to keep with the insurance at all--it's a broken system that doesn't work. Instead of trying to fix health insurance we should have thrown it out the window and worked on healthcare itself--but apparently that would be too "unamerican" and instead we have to reinvent the wheel so we aren't like those damn socialists.

[sekhmet]

AS A CANADIAN , I IS SOCIALIST SCUMmm.

[stormslegacy]

I dare you to look at the #teaparty tag in Twitter. Full of genis tweets like "RE: Healthcare2010 remember the Nazis? beware government showers!!!!"

*headdesk* Yes, because making sure diabetic children are no longer excluded from plans totally = systematic killing of jews, gypsies and other "wierdos."

Riiiigght.

[zebrataur]

Socialised healthcare just got Mesusah a new kidney installed! I just spoke to her yesterday, she's doing GREAT - it was like talking to a new person. I'm so happy for her, and Norway has the best health care in the world so she's in good hands :D

Heh have you seen this?

I was rather amused by the video on the BBC of the reporter interviewing a bunch of protesting Americans and asking what they thought of the UK's NHS. They all agreed that it sucked, although couldn't quite explain why. Only one person said it was good... coincidentally, he was the was the only one that had actually BEEN to the UK.

[anonymous]

Those people should really see how public health care is abused in Italy. They'd probably get a stroke. A classic joke/meme here is that whole towns in southern Italy live off subsidies for fake health problems. :-D And some hospitals are broke all the time, many people hate public medics and complain that nothing works, etc.

Yet... when you look at the actual results, the average treatment is very good and Italy has one of the highest life expectancies, even higher than the US.

The fact is a system as complex as health care works in ways which are not obvious. To me it seems that the American public opinion is incredibly fixated on the fear that somebody will "live off subsidies", when that is just a stupid detail and the by far the least problem a health care system has to face. But I see it's a cultural issue... the American culture is very individualistic and the concept of living off subsidies is almost blasphemy.

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