Quote from Gottschalk:
Everyone does have a health care plan. It's called cash. Seriously why are people so unbelievably stupid.
Have you ever had to pay a hospital bill out of pocket? Do you even realize how absurd the pricing for medical care is nowdays, especially trauma treatment? The service is pure sh*t, the pricing is absurd. The doctors will make up excuses to give uncessary testing & procedures just to squeeze more money out of insurance or your pocket. They will push unnecessary pills en masse. Your well being is not a concern, their pocket is.
Yes there is a serious lack of personal accountability for the McDonalds fat asses, but there are also plenty of people that think they are eating healthy, when in fact they are consuming factory produced, GMO modified, chemical sprayed and injected crap. There is capitalism at its best, because Monsanto, General Mills, Dean foods & Archer Daniels need to improve profits and quality food requres quality care.
Why is it that free healthcare works in Canada & Europe. Why is it that the standard of living is higher there and people are in general happier. Why is it that when Europeans come to USA, they all say that the food here tastes artificial. Yeah, socialistic aspects are sooo bad. Screw the little farmers, Monsanto has analyst projections to meet, so lets drive them out of business with mass produced cheap crap. By the way, has it ever crossed your mind just how similiar today's mass farming operations are to those of Soviet collectivist farms?
The fact is that USA's medical industry is capitalist driven entity, where profit rules all. You are taking something noble and turning it into a business. Kids are becoming doctors to get rich, not to help people. Big pharma pushes their drugs through these kids, corrupting even the good ones. Medical bills are bankrupting people, just how absurd is that in a 1st world country.
There are certain things that should not be done for profit alone. Medicine is one of them. There is little profit in a healthy population, after all.
You make a great point about the plan failing. It does not look at the real root of the problem.