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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (5768)	10/5/2008 8:12:07 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

4.5% of the people in the Netherlands are put down w/o being asked. Is that respect? Not at all. I thought I was perfectly clear. Voluntary vs. involuntary. Different. Respect is maximized when we individually have greatest control over our own life and death. BTW there was a progression there and I don't believe the Netherlands has yet reached the end of that progression yet. The Netherlands is not the US. From Wiki: "The Netherlands has a dual-level system. All primary and curative care (i.e. the family doctor service and hospitals and clinics) is financed from private compulsory insurance. Long term care for the elderly, the dying, the long term mentally ill etc. is covered by social insurance funded from taxation." The moral of that story is to keep health care private. Government systems are public health systems. They never have as their main objective the well being of the individual.