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Originally Posted by ila
You do pay for everything. It's just that you pay for it indirectly through your taxes.
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I know, but say if you needed life saving drugs which are very expensive you wouldn't be able to get them would you? The NHS also gives us piece of mind as you know that no matter what (pretty much), you will get treated. Even people that are only here on holiday get treated for free iirc. Everyone is treated the same and has the access to drugs they may need.
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Originally Posted by TracyCoxx
Because for one thing we already have a system where people get health insurance through their employers, and 85% of Americans are happy with the way this works.
For another thing, to change the system to a national health service would require everyone's health premiums to go up like $2000/year and the result would be degraded medical service.
And for another thing, our country is deep in debt and cannot afford the national health care system that was enacted.
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I understand that, but if there was a shake-up of the rules it would be a lot fairer for everyone and there wouldn't be huge corporations trying to profit off someone's illness. Which I think is disgusting.
I often wonder how the american public let these corporations do what they do. They must spend so much money on propaganda.
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Thanks for the replies
