Not according to the WHO however. According to them health care is better overall in many countries with socialized medicine than it is in the U.S.
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Are you trying claim that cancer test screening is quicker in Canada than the US?
I think it is risky to claim generalities based on anecdote. In my home town it takes up to three months to get a colonoscopy scheduled. Lets suppose a patient is experiencing symptoms of a potential medical issue. Gets a referral and in a little over three months gets the colonoscopy results. Is that good medicine ? No, of course not. Is it true? Yes. .Is it anecdote? Yes. We need to evaluate on the basis of what is true in general, and keep in mind that something true in general of the Canadian Health System says nothing about the care in another country. .
The WHO has lots of data. We should depend on that data, in my opinion, to judge which countries do the better job of providing quality medical care to their citizens, and then study why some countries are better and some worse. We should emulate the the ones that are better ; not the ones that are worse. This reasoning is based on a simple premise. Universal access to a reasonably advanced level of medical care is the mark of a civilized modern society, and therefore a reasonable goal of these societies. Access implies affordability. If we want to consider ourselves civilized and modern, we must figure out how our respective countries can achieve that goal.
I just spent the past two week in Toronto watching news on the Canadian cancer screening test result wait time crisis. Complete with facts and figures including U.S. comparisons.
I will agree the US would be better off with some type of public plan — not ACA, but we need to accept the reality of rationing and wait times for those who participate in the public plan. I will note that those in Canada who pay to participate in private medical offerings such as Medican don’t have wait issues.
This is just so basic. Address the part of the system that is broken. Make it better. Do not ruin the part that was working perfectly well. Obama was more interested in punishing middle class whites than fixing the system.
We could go a long way toward improving things by expanding the number of medical schools. How many could we have built and staffed with one year's amount of money pissed away in Afghanistan?
The other thing to think about is the age the cancer screening starts at.
The insurance companies may have differing thresholds to the UK's NHS etc. If the blanket testing takes three months however it is done two years earlier, that is a lot of lives.
Hybrid system exist in all major socialist democracies, if you want to pay for private insurance you have that choice. I was 100% covered by the UK's NHS but chose to pay for private guy after I hurt my knees, I wanted it done immediately, not a week (work reasons, end of a project).
Because the say UK NHS is free, most people stop thinking they have other choices if they pay cash, less that many US deductibles I am sure. It is not the public system's fault people get penny wise and pound foolish with their health (if they have the money for those occasional times).
Sloan Kettering is ideal for cancer however a guy working in a realtor office or other ordinary job can't have that. We live in a real world.
Remember this post, third paragraph? https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/justice-shuts-trump-down-again.315266/page-3#post-4550573
The insurance companies may have differing thresholds to the UK's NHS etc. If the blanket testing takes three months however it is done two years earlier, that is a lot of lives.
Hybrid system exist in all major socialist democracies, if you want to pay for private insurance you have that choice. I was 100% covered by the UK's NHS but chose to pay for private guy after I hurt my knees, I wanted it done immediately, not a week (work reasons, end of a project).
Because the say UK NHS is free, most people stop thinking they have other choices if they pay cash, less that many US deductibles I am sure. It is not the public system's fault people get penny wise and pound foolish with their health (if they have the money for those occasional times).
Sloan Kettering is ideal for cancer however a guy working in a realtor office or other ordinary job can't have that. We live in a real world.
Remember this post, third paragraph? https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/justice-shuts-trump-down-again.315266/page-3#post-4550573
Fuck off butt pirate.
Your new Tool picture suits you. You sure are a tool.
That Tool album being called Enima is quite the Freudian slip of yours.
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Do these come-ons work for you, butt pirate? I told you, I am into women; not ugly, pasty white fat fags like you, with bad skin. Now run along, omega.
BTW, the name of the Tool album is Aenima, you moron.
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"With bad skin"?? Who says that? I guess you got beat up a lot in high school huh?
Yeah sounds like an enema, that is what you mean. Anyway, little man (with bad teeth? is that how this works?) did you get that ice cream like I told you to?