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sandypossum · 01-25-2015, 01:19 AM

The lack of universal health care is always the biggest mystery to me, and most people I know outside the USA. That a country so rich should not have it is so strange. It changes a lot of things, not just giving needed medical treatment to poor people. For example, one of the arguments used to support conspiracy theories about the govt and "Big Pharma" would not apply here in Australia (or not as easily) as it is in the govt's economic interests for us not to be sick. The govt is the one who will have to carry the costs if they actually are trying to "keep us sick" as conspiracy theorists would have you believe, and that would be silly. Same with vaccinations. If they really did make us so much more sick, then they would be stupid forcing us to have them.

Whew. That was my first non-me-me-me post, and it has left me a bit exhausted. Hope I made sense.

01-25-2015, 01:19 AM	#3
sandypossum tri-continental dag hag Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 247	The lack of universal health care is always the biggest mystery to me, and most people I know outside the USA. That a country so rich should not have it is so strange. It changes a lot of things, not just giving needed medical treatment to poor people. For example, one of the arguments used to support conspiracy theories about the govt and "Big Pharma" would not apply here in Australia (or not as easily) as it is in the govt's economic interests for us not to be sick. The govt is the one who will have to carry the costs if they actually are trying to "keep us sick" as conspiracy theorists would have you believe, and that would be silly. Same with vaccinations. If they really did make us so much more sick, then they would be stupid forcing us to have them. Whew. That was my first non-me-me-me post, and it has left me a bit exhausted. Hope I made sense. __________________ you're never too old to have a happy childhood Last edited by sandypossum; 01-25-2015 at 01:28 AM.