and guess who would pay for it? Taxpayers! So if I am going to die, and its a big spendy bill you can pay for it...when I was very sick, and not able to work, and all I needed was some anti biotics to fix it...I was not able to get any...I sat at home, not working , thus lossing money I could not afford to not be at work making...Had I had them, I could have been back to work in like 2 days...but nope ended up sick for more like 2 weeks. I was actuly going to resort to getting meds from a freind that had left overs...while very unsafe, it was getting to be my only option...So yes I had the black market to fall back on, how great.
There is no Choice to just get it free you ***** if you could just get it all free, why the Hell do you pay for insurance? lets just all not have insurance, and just show up saying Im sick fix me, and pretend no one realy pays for it.
If you can get health care free from the government, then why would you pay for it?
Well of course the answer is you wouldn't. So if we have gov-care we won't need to pay for it, and no one will. Sounds great.
Record numbers of Londoners are abandoning the NHS and travelling abroad for medical treatment.
About 22,000 people in the capital went overseas for surgery and dental treatment last year - a rise of nearly a quarter on 2006.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/stand...ug+fear+drives+NHS+patients+abroad/article.do
Huh.... a record number, 22,000 patients, fled London, the Capital of the UK, to get health care out of their country.... for a price. And that 22,000 patients is ONLY counting the ones that fled London.
More than 100,000 fled the UK in 2007.
Now why would a hundred thousand people with free gov-care, completely free at their local hospital, in a first world country, choose to buy, to pay money for health care in another country?
Let's think that through. Why would that many fly out of the country? Bad enough to pay for service inside your country when it's free, but to actually fly out of the country to get health care? That's nuts! It's free! Why would you fly out of the country to pay for something you get free down the street?!??!
BECAUSE GOV CARE SUCKS !!!
This isn't that hard. Gov-care doesn't work. It's awful, and people only want it, until they have it, and then they complain or fly to another country to get better care.
Even in the countries where they are flying to, it's not the gov-care hospitals they are going to. It's the private fee-for-service capitalist hospitals they end up at. In Singapore, more than 80% of the medical tourism the country enjoys, is all at private hospitals, not the government owned public hospitals.
Gov-care sucks. It's true in Canada, the UK, France, Cuba and everywhere, and it's even true inside America. VA hospitals are awful. Government run hospitals are always bad.