I haven't seen Sicko (or any Michael Moore movie) but I have seen excerpts and read a lot of review and commentary on it. What I've seen so far doesn't make me think it would be worth my time, and is certainly not something I'd want to pay for (esp. with the money going in part to Moore)
I followed your link. The only real point I saw there was that your care was competent and cost you zero (other than the taxes you pay for the system).
If so, did you wonder what my personal experience would have cost one of the 40 million plus, uninsured in America?
I don't understand the question.
Do you think that Americans would have no wait times, if 40 plus million got in line?
Well since uninsured doesn't equal no health care, many of the 40 million are already "in line", but to the extent that paying for their health care through some sort of national health care system would increase their demand for health care, it would tend to increase lines, esp. if its combined with squeezing suppliers on price and thus putting downward pressure on supply.
Is it true in America that when you retire and get social security cheques that health care premiums are deducted?
In America you the elderly get Medicare. I don't have any knowledge of Medicare premiums being deducted from social security checks but I suppose its possible. Does anyone here know?
What are your thoughts on my view of Canada's healthcare as being part of infrastructure that we use, and not part of any "isim?"
My thought is that its mostly a meaningless or irrelevant idea. Sure its part of the infrastructure that you use, but that doesn't say anything meaningful about it either in a practical sense, or in terms of morality or political ideology.
"Part of the infrastructure" does not equate with "not part of any ism". Specifically the single payer is socialism in least in the narrow sense of the health insurance industry being pretty much socialized (although it doesn't cover everything, and private insurance is allowed for what it doesn't cover, and since a recent court decision, apparently private health insurance in general is legal). You say "like roads, airports etc. covered by the taxpayers dollar", well they are also to an extent socialism. |
