First Off - I do not believe in Socialized anything, but there are certainly a lot of problems with the US healthcare system.
The last time I was in the hospital the bills after insurance were in excess of 4 grand, fortunately I am far from poverty stricken, but stick that bill to the average 2 job working American family raising 2 kids and there goes Christmas.
Watching my Grandmother pay 50% of her retirement income for perscription drugs, or sitting in the Valley Hospital ER watching not one, but 2 elderly people moaning in sever pain, not even getting a place to lie down until their insurance coverage in verified (we are talking about a town where the average house is 750 grand) don't even think that the level of care is the same for insured versus non insured people.
Watching Schering Plough sell Claritin at 6 dollars a pill in the US and 6 dollars a Box in Canada (making profit in both places)
At the same time research into AIDS, cancer, etc is next to nothing because it is not profitable but the drug companies are hard at work making pills to make your dick stay hard, grow your hair back, melt the fat off of us, and make us not fart after we eat too much broccoli.
As for taxes, we in the US pay one hell of a lot more than we think we do, the hidden taxes in the shit that we buy probably comes close to what we see them steal from us, might be more if you are a big consumer.
Funny part is most of the problems with the health care in the US was caused by insurance companies and lawyers. Doctors have to charge 250 an hour since they are paying insane malpractice rates, an OB in NJ pays 100 grand a year for malpractice because when some crack whore gives birth to a 3 eyed baby it is somehow the Doctors fault and some panel of people too stupid to be able to get off jury duty is going to award 5 million.
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