Why does socialized medicine suck again?

[namelessone]

Now please look up the difference between causality and correlation. Having a better and cheaper healthcare system that is ALSO socialized doesn't mean that the process of socialization is what made it cheaper and better. It's logical, but wrong.

Do you have concrete evidence to prove that it's wrong?

[mvallas]

Now please look up the difference between causality and correlation. Having a better and cheaper healthcare system that is ALSO socialized doesn't mean that the process of socialization is what made it cheaper and better. It's logical, but wrong.

...then please enlighten us as to what causes Socialized Medicine in other countries to be much cheaper and yet maintain the same level of care, if not better, than the USA?

[pucGG]

and how much did you make? because in the US, for a year of work with nought but a HS diploma, you'd be hard pressed to be making more than 20k before taxes

51000$ a year.

[Miscer]

Income equality in the US is an issue whether you want to admit or not. Universal heakthcare is one step that would help fix it.

Ah yes, that's why I got a supposed 13% pay raise this year, yet I am going to net less this month than I did in December.

Hurrah for the middle-class, disturbed wealth for everyone!

[Wafffles]

I just had non-essential surgery in my chest (a procedure which took around 2 hours of operating) and it left me with a bill of around 15 USD... lol
So tell me, why does socialized medicine suck again? This procedure would've cost around 6000 dollars if I had funded it privately....

At the very least, there were three paid professionals in that operating room with you. We won't even factor in MD insurance, operating devices, medicine, janitorial professionals and products to sterilize the room after you, upkeep of the hospital, power and plumbing bills, administration costs, cost of the bed you were laying on, etc. Simply considering wages, you paid doctors and nurses who went through YEARS of education to not, you know, kill you on the table, $2.50 an hour. I'm not even talking about the tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars they spend on that education, which surely will prompt claims that education is overpriced, which it is. I'm talking about the sacrifice, dedication, and talent it takes to attend and succeed in medical school/ nursing school. And you think a fair compensation is roughly 1/3 minimum wage?

So yes, someone else, somewhere, is paying for your awesome surgery; if they aren't, then it's the doctors who are paying, and getting truly screwed, likely prompting future prospective doctors to go into fields like business instead.

Don't get me wrong, either, America needs to and inevitably is moving towards socialized medicine. It works better and it makes more sense, even in vehemently capitalistic societies. I'm merely pointing out that you really do need to pay for it somehow, even once costs are minimized. And while $6000 may be ridiculous, there's no way the associated costs I just listed didn't realistically cost a thousand bucks or more. And you paid $15.

[Kurioxan]

it is cultural, you have to understand that US culture is deeply rooted on competition over cooperation (a relic of cold era when anything that could be twisted remotely into "communism" was deemed bad, such as cooperation, sharing, common good)

Being based on competition it creates also a deep sense of entitlement, the socialized healthcare means that any bum can get as good health care as the guy who worked his ass off for many years (many still believe that working hard has anything to do with wealth, load of bs) and they see it as unfair, why should the bum have the same rights as the guy who worked hard?

It is cultural really but luckly a lot of people are starting to think differently, when all the old white men die off old age maybe there will be a lot of change.

[fengosa]

Ah yes, that's why I got a supposed 13% pay raise this year, yet I am going to net less this month than I did in December.

Hurrah for the middle-class, disturbed wealth for everyone!

Payroll holiday, nothing to do with healthcare costs.

[mvallas]

Ah yes, that's why I got a supposed 13% pay raise this year, yet I am going to net less this month than I did in December.

Hurrah for the middle-class, disturbed wealth for everyone!

...I think you mean "Distributed"...

Though I am trying to picture what "disturbed wealth" is... I'm kinda picturing an "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" kinda horror story with Dollar Bills strangling people.

[Glorious Leader]

...I think you mean "Distributed"...

Though I am trying to picture what "disturbed wealth" is... I'm kinda picturing an "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" kinda horror story with Dollar Bills strangling people.

Man I was enjoying my morning coffee. Now it's all over my screen from loling. Thank you!

[Miscer]

Payroll holiday, nothing to do with healthcare costs.

Not in my case.

...I think you mean "Distributed"...

Though I am trying to picture what "disturbed wealth" is... I'm kinda picturing an "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" kinda horror story with Dollar Bills strangling people.

I think we may have just coined a new catch phrase, lol.

[fengosa]

Not in my case.

Can you clarify? Are insurance cost taken directly off of your paycheck?

[Orlong]

Yes. Its called an investment.

Well I dont want to make that investment. There is nothing in it for me

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Yes. Currently consists of 12 frigates, 3 destroyers, 4 submarines, 12 coastal defense ships, and various other miscellany.

Wow, the US has more than that at just one base. I dont know that I would call that a Navy, maybe a flotilla

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...then please enlighten us as to what causes Socialized Medicine in other countries to be much cheaper and yet maintain the same level of care, if not better, than the USA?

The reason it is much cheaper in other countries is because they limit the amount that will be paid by the government forcing the US to subsidize research into new drugs and procedures by paying the asinine prices we do. Ever wonder why new drugs and medical procedures are never discovered or invented anywhere other than the US?

[Endus]

Wow, the US has more than that at just one base. I dont know that I would call that a Navy, maybe a flotilla

Don't be deliberately obtuse. The US has almost ten times the population of Canada. And about 15 times as many ships. So, relative to population, your Navy is about half again as large as ours.

And we don't choose to bankrupt ourselves with inflated military spending, which is why we have significantly less debt per capita and a much lower current deficit per capita as well.

[Dezerte]

The reason it is much cheaper in other countries is because they limit the amount that will be paid by the government forcing the US to subsidize research into new drugs and procedures by paying the asinine prices we do. Ever wonder why new drugs and medical procedures are never discovered or invented anywhere other than the US?

That sounds like a rather bold claim, do you have any reliable source for that information?

[Kurioxan]

Don't be deliberately obtuse. The US has almost ten times the population of Canada. And about 15 times as many ships. So, relative to population, your Navy is about half again as large as ours.

And we don't choose to bankrupt ourselves with inflated military spending, which is why we have significantly less debt per capita and a much lower current deficit per capita as well.

Was about to say that, not every country is paranoid and afraid of the world, US has the biggest spending on military in the world, it needs several of the other ones together to make it close to the budget.
If they spend that money on social policies, then the US would be the most advanced country in the world, which it isnt right now... such a enormous waste of resources at the cost of citizens quality of life, then again its a difference in perspective i guess.

Also not to forget that while the "US" is a "country" realistically it is more akin to the EU than it is to canada, its a joining of many different country-sized states, so its more akin of a continent, to compare US to a country is the same as comparing the EU to a single country, senseless.

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Ever wonder why new drugs and medical procedures are never discovered or invented anywhere other than the US?

What a load of crap, many advances in medicine were done elsewhere, drugs? yes the US pharma industry is allmighty, but not medicine per se.

[Trunksee]

and how much did you make? because in the US, for a year of work with nought but a HS diploma, you'd be hard pressed to be making more than 20k before taxes

Um not true. Thats all i have and if your willing to work your ass off in a trade i make 70k a ywar in construction. You just have to be willing to work.

[Ausr]

That sounds like a rather bold claim, do you have any reliable source for that information?

Should know by now he won't provide a source or make a legitimate statement that is true.

[Endus]

What a load of crap, many advances in medicine were done elsewhere, drugs? yes the US pharma industry is allmighty, but not medicine per se.

Besides which, most of those pharmacorps are based in the US because the laws regarding taxation and research and such are favorable. It has nothing to do with the price of pills.

[JfmC]

Well I dont want to make that investment. There is nothing in it for me

Education is an investment we all profit from, even if you do not have kids or plan to not ever have kids, remember that education is providing the future workforce that will pay for your pension.

Ever wonder why new drugs and medical procedures are never discovered or invented anywhere other than the US?

Do you even think about what you are writing before you post? Or do you just look at the American flag and put your hand on your heart before you click "post reply"? America is not the only first world country, and it certainly isn't the country where most scientists come from (they do employ the most scientists tough, but more then half of them are recruited outside US).

[Tommo]

Ever wonder why new drugs and medical procedures are never discovered or invented anywhere other than the US?

My god cut the nationalistic rubbish and do a google search, its nausiating to read this kind of stuff.