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

To: Lane3 who wrote (8302)	8/17/2009 10:31:51 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

I guess that enough time has passed that you would have responded to my flip remark by now if you were going to. Fair enough. Sorry Lane, I have about 15 messages to respond to from various threads and I do so when I feel like it, and have some time. Or sometimes I don't... and just clear the messages. i try not to be a slave to SI discussions. The Swiss also spend more per capita on food. What can you reasonably conclude from that factoid about the value, quality, satisfaction, efficacy, etc. re food in the two countries? Again, nothing. Surely you wouldn't argue for the Swiss to change their food system based upon our lower per-capita spending. So why is the lower health care cost in Europe enough to warrant our changing our health care system to emulate theirs? How could that possibly be considered a cogent argument? When taken alone, it's easy to argue that any individual country has good reasons for a much cheaper cost of health care. But when taken together, when they all have cheaper care... it just becomes difficult for me to ignore the most obvious difference. How about this... instead of saying that all those countries have much less expensive health care BECAUSE they have a national system, lets put it this way. There is something unique (and wrong) with the US system that makes it much more expensive than systems in similar countries the world over. And it's something we need to fix. Now the next step for most people would be to look at the differences...