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Originally Posted by knucklesplitter
Abso-fucking-lutely. Our current healthcare mess is one of (if not *the* most) expensive of industrialized nations, yet we rank like #30. France's is considered the best (single payer with independent doctors, etc.). I would hope we could do better than the French. Maybe not, though.
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I have to agree.
Our current system not only costs us more out of pocket than any other, we also spend more via taxes than most countries with socialized healthcare.
Basically, we're getting the worst of both worlds right now. And it's not so much because of a failure of free market vs. socialized healthcare, it's because our "free market" has been allowed to manipulate the gov't so much via lobbyists. We already have socialized healthcare... except our taxes aren't paying into the system to help citizens, they're paying into the system to subsidize the insurance and drug companies massive profits.
We need to either put all the companies out of business by totally socializing the industry, or put them all out of business to force them to start over and actually compete. Because right now they're getting away with murder (almost literally). Even the ObamaCare changes aren't really forcing them to compete with anyone.