Calling All Non-Americans!! Would You Trade Health Care Systems With Us?

[Badger]

I live in a town where the median family income is around $80,000 with <4% poverty.  That pretty much describe your typical middle class American town.  I have never once heard of anyone that does not have health insurance. 

Oh child......

[Vepres]

Fezzy is 100% right.  Too bad I am the first person to come to his defense in this thread (also the first non-European or liberal to post here)

I live in a town where the median family income is around $80,000 with <4% poverty.  That pretty much describe your typical middle class American town.

I wouldn't call a town with a median family income of $80,000 middle class. Then again, if you live in an area with a high cost of living, that could very well be middle class.

Let me say this, every country needs a different system to suit it's culture, needs, demographics, etc. There is no reason to overhaul the health care system when a vast majority of Americans have and like their insurance.

I read an interesting article today on how Vermont reformed their health care system. Coverage wasn't universal, but there was no government insurance, it was deficit neutral, with it had good results.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I love how people act like simply having health insurance means you have guaranteed 100% coverage and you'll never have any issues with access to health care.

As Michael Moore said about Sicko, the movie is not about those who don't have insurance, but those who do.

[Eraserhead]

I voted for the wrong option by mistake. Damn, I hate when that happens.

[Nym90]

I voted for the wrong option by mistake. Damn, I hate when that happens.

That's why every poll should have the "remove your vote" option.

[Lief 🗽]

Here's an interesting quote Ezra Klein posted the other day:

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[Eraserhead]

I voted for the wrong option by mistake. Damn, I hate when that happens.

That's why every poll should have the "remove your vote" option.

Agreed. I looked for it to no avail.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Here's an interesting quote Ezra Klein posted the other day:

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Depressing.

[Badger]

I voted for the wrong option by mistake. Damn, I hate when that happens.

I didn't know you weren't American, Eraserhead. Where are you from?

[Platypus]

I voted for the wrong option by mistake. Damn, I hate when that happens.

Why were you voting, anyway?

[Хahar 🤔]

I voted for the wrong option by mistake. Damn, I hate when that happens.

I didn't know you weren't American, Eraserhead. Where are you from?

Hippieland in Upstate New York (which is, of course, not America).