At least you still have health care, Dana. Here in the US, something like 30% of the population has no health insurance at all. Sure, they can resort to a hospital ER, but an ER visit is far more expensive than a regular doctor's visit. The people who can't afford insurance can't afford to pay that high ER bill either, so costs get passed along in the form of higher bills for those who have insurance. The insurance companies pass the cost along to the consumer and tah-dah! What results is actually a highly expensive, very ineffective form of national health insurance. But don't tell anybody. We wouldn't want to have a system that might actually be cost effective and even save lives. Not here in the good old US of A. Nope.
10-06-2007, 12:41 PM
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