But there are also foreigners in the United States who have seen firsthand how socializing medicine doesn't work for them ( them personally ). My fiancee is from England, and one of my best friends from Denmark. In fact, one of my co-workers is Canadian and just because he is Canadian doesn't mean he shares your opinion ( in fact, he doesn't ) I really don't want to start a political debate here cause those kind of debates almost always turn ugly, but why do you think so many Canadian doctors work here in the United States? They are paid for their quality of work and all the years they put into studying their medicinal expertise. While I don't want to say that even the entire field of working to help better and save lives still rotates on greed, if you are paid based on your quality of work and the amount of patients you have, then you do your utmost best to give the best quality of work and time and care to each patient you can. Socializing it all would cause a dip in the quality of healthcare and attention each individual receives.
beli2005- I completely understand where you are coming from. My best friend is disabled, and by a bizarre turn of events ended up on the streets and ended up missing for about a month. I spent every day driving the streets looking for him. I finally found him in a back-alley several towns over, laying on the ground, near dead from exposure and blood poisoning. I managed to help him struggle into my Jeep and I took him to the nearest ER, where he was facing amputation because of the blood-poisoning in his leg. He was hospitalized for months but the staff told me that if I hadn't found him when I did, he surely would have expired.
It's been almost 2 years since then, and now officially disabled and unable to work, I've watched him firsthand struggle with the system. Myself and his brother helped him move into a small apartment for now until his disability checks start arriving, and he too has to go through the process of paying rent vs. food stamps, but he has been on the waiting list for government housing for 2 years now, when he was originally told it would only take 6-8 months, yet I've met a young, healthy, 20 something who always worked 2 days at a job and then walked out on them because "they bored them or weren't cool" take advantage of a free apartment provided by St. Vincent de Paul's and do nothing but use it to bring back girls he met at bars to. The system really needs to be re-examined.
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I thought there was a shortage of hosp. staff. But yet they say that by cutting hundreds of staff, it will not affect the service they give. Do you believe that? I think there will be longer wait times in the ER. Because alot of people who did lose their jobs and health ins. are using the ER more because regular Dr.'s won't see them because they don't have the money to pay up front. I'm not sure if I would want to have a surgery during this time, because the Dr.'s that are still employed will be so over worked there could be an increase of mistakes. Not like that doesn't happen now but that could also be on the rise. And the state is making it harder for people to get the state funded health ins. So that is not making matters better. Hopefully this won't last too long.
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