bssage said:
Sounds like I am bashing my own country. I'm not: I love the US.
But for some reason apparently even the metric system seems to be out of our grasp.
Sometimes we have to educate ourselves to keep up with the changing times. My son taught me much of it, and I had to look up some things my self.
The metric system is new to all of us, I found that by having a kid in school forced me to keep up with the changes. Especially the 'new' math.
Thank goodness he's a pro there didn't need my help at all.lol
When I said that I don't buy into stories I hear from citizens of some other countries that their health care system is so much better than ours, I just know, speaking from my own life experiences and only for myself, I find that you never get something for nothing and if it sounds too good to be true, than it probably is.
We each think our countries way of doing things is the 'best' way, including me, but we all can learn a little something from each other if we listen. We also need to realize that we're NOT getting ALL the information from the posters here, we're all just ordinary people, and are basically sharing a real small piece of knowledge about a very large subject.
There are way too many variables for any one person to know about their countries health care system that I would need an answer to before I could totally agree that theirs is better than mine and make that switch.
However, If it turned out to be true that one country has the better system , I hope our president knows about it, and copies it for us asap!! lol
That's another thing, why hasn't that been done already if there is a better quality of health care someplace that's been working wonderfully for a long time, and cheaper? don't you think our country would have jumped on that? Don't you think it would have been experimented with already here in the U.S.? There has to be something we'd be forfeiting. I don't know, maybe better quality healthcare, maybe wait times would make it almost impossible to see a dr when your really sick.
Just because a policy, or regulation works well for another country, who dosen't have the same taxation systems we've had for 2 centuries, and the same Constitutional legal systems we operate under, doesn't mean it would work correctly for our country. there are many differences between the U.S. and countries who've been around for hundreds of centuries. Even thousands. They've had plenty of time to find what works best, and have been through plenty of trials and errors.
Who wouldn't want to live in a place that pays for your healthcare completely, and has no negative effect on our countries revenue( I think even the government would take advantage of this) and you wouldn't have to give up any bit of the lifestyle your use to?? OR WOULD YOU?
I quote this from a site" If the government is providing those things to the people, but the people are not paying taxes for it, then
how is that government paying for its doctors, facilities, administration, medicines, and research?" unquote,
This is how I feel, but couldn't find the right words.lol but I say even if taxes are low, that has to mean that the quality of care isn't the best. Here are is another site I looked at. You can find more on your own that might make you feel better about our healthcare.
http://reason.com/archives/2009/07/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-h[/URL]
Sometimes the grass simply looks greener on the other side of the world. :no:
Have a great day everyone.