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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: PROLIFE who wrote (13857)	3/4/2010 7:20:19 AM
From: Alighieri	5 Recommendations Read Replies (3) of 42652

Tim pretty well summed up what I would have said, except I might add that it was just a couple weeks ago that the Prime Minister of Canada came to the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA to get his heart worked over....guess that socialized medicine in Canada ain't that great, huh? And....from the stories I hear England's socialized medicine pretty much sucks too. What does that prove? People used to go to South Africa for heart transplants back in the 60s. You folks refuse to understand the essentials of the debate...it is possible and even likely to receive excellent health care in the US...no one disputes this fact. The problem is that, to many people, this level of care is not accessible nor affordable, and, to far too many, health care is only administered through an emergency room visit. It's all about socio-economic standing. Sure...a cancer patient can receive world class treatment at Sloan Kettering, and the Mayo clinic is among the most advanced and best run facility in the nation, but equivalent care is not available to millions of Americans. It is the prime reason the WHO finds our system 37th in the world. The system is in dire need of reform... Al

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