It's called health care tourism and it is an idea that a growing number of insurance companies are starting to embrace for an increasing number of procedures.
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Even they recognize that the cost of care is getting out of hand and would like to do something about it.
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Over here in the UK we get it all for free thanks to the NHS
I'm pretty sure Americans could have something like that (Obamacare) but they're all too busy crying like little bitches that a black man runs their country and saying no to Obamacare instead of trying to make it work. Not sure what all their land whales will do when their bodies start giving way and they need help.
Haha yep, closed down their government rather than have accessible healthcare that wouldn't leave people in crippling debt. If there's ever a public outcry that I just can't understand, it was that one.
It will cost us more in the future. My mom lived in another country where they had the same thing. She says it was horrible for the economy there, and it made living harder on the population. We need something that will help us, and forcing us to change our plan isn't helping us. It's a great idea but it needs to be backed up with facts from other experiences. If we altered the plans a bit and gave that healthcare to those people who could not afford their own, we would be much better off.
How will it cost you more? If you want 'facts from other experiences', just look up Australia or England or, well, pretty much every other country. There are facts and long-term proven results. It's based on a system where, sure, everyone's tax is a bit higher, but a) the medical system isn't choosing how much the medication cost (even if it's a lot higher than it should be, for profits sake) and b) the people who earn more, or people who are able to work, are helping out their fellow citizens in the act of, you know, staying alive.
You uninformed morons piss me off. The Affordable Care Act or as you call it, "Obamacare" only raised health coverage premiums for a third of the country while imposing fines on those that did not want coverage. This is nothing even remotely close to nationalized medicine and nothing anywhere near affordable to blue collar workers. So take your uninformed selves back to whatever hole you crawled out of and hide your shame.
Because if we can't fix everything 100%, let's not fix it at all, right? There are plenty of countries you could model a health care system off, America is not actually that unique. Every economy works more or less the same way, just adjust it to the slight differences and you're sweet. I'm most definitely not 'uniformed', just can see the benefit in a system that has been proven time and time again. A system that saves lives and significantly increases the quality of life for people.
The US government is based on the idea of laissez faire (free market). The health-care services is considered a market therefore the government has no say as to what procedures cost and such.
It's all about quality- idk what the difference between hip replacements is from country to country but you either pay for the price difference through taxes or having to keep getting new ones
An apocalyptic volcano might erupt in 10,000 years that's in Yellowstone park,that will instantly kill all the people in a radius of 100 miles,and the ash would be ten feet deep in a radius 10,000 miles and 2/3 of America would also have toxic gasses,not to mention that because of all the sulfur in the air from that the earth 's temperature would secrete by 20 degrees farennhieght.
But on the bright side it might just be lava
Lol wut?
I think you replied in the wrong tab. Not sure what the Yellowstone Caldera has to do with international health care.
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(BTW, it's not "in" Yellowstone, it IS Yellowstone. It stretches across three states.)
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Even they recognize that the cost of care is getting out of hand and would like to do something about it.
But on the bright side it might just be lava
I think you replied in the wrong tab. Not sure what the Yellowstone Caldera has to do with international health care.
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(BTW, it's not "in" Yellowstone, it IS Yellowstone. It stretches across three states.)