I agree with this! The more options that people have the better! I would love to see people be able to buy insurance across state lines.
I deal with military health care constantly, it's crap. I don't wish this on anyone. I also live in Belgium currently where you see social health care at it's worst. I don't know how people say Belgium's healthcare is top notch, because from what I've experienced it's not. We were in the ER with my son for this massive case of hives and there was a man literally bleeding all over the place laying on the FLOOR with an IV hooked up to him and they left him there for a good 45 mins before they took him away. They hospitalized my son, refused to tell me what they were giving him, why they were taking blood, what tests they were running, etc. etc. They wouldn't speak to us because we don't speak French. I tried my best but I am not fluent. Finally I went off on them, called our base doctor and called the American Embassy. I am tired of being treated like crap because we are Americans in this stupid country. I tried my best to be nice and when that didn't work I just lost it because my child was laying in a hospital from the cold war era with 1980s equipment and I was being treated like dirt.
With Universal healthcare what happens to medical research? The reason people pour money into it, is because there is money to be made. So what happens when the gov't takes over healthcare? Also with our country drowning in our ever growing deficit how can we afford to dabble in everyone's healthcare? Now that it's been labeled a tax I really hope Congress will over turn it or at least make it so it can't be implemented. I really fear for our country. Being overseas you get a fresh perspective and get to see it from Europe's eyes and it's not pretty.
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Date: 2012-08-13 09:58 am (UTC)I deal with military health care constantly, it's crap. I don't wish this on anyone. I also live in Belgium currently where you see social health care at it's worst. I don't know how people say Belgium's healthcare is top notch, because from what I've experienced it's not. We were in the ER with my son for this massive case of hives and there was a man literally bleeding all over the place laying on the FLOOR with an IV hooked up to him and they left him there for a good 45 mins before they took him away. They hospitalized my son, refused to tell me what they were giving him, why they were taking blood, what tests they were running, etc. etc. They wouldn't speak to us because we don't speak French. I tried my best but I am not fluent. Finally I went off on them, called our base doctor and called the American Embassy. I am tired of being treated like crap because we are Americans in this stupid country. I tried my best to be nice and when that didn't work I just lost it because my child was laying in a hospital from the cold war era with 1980s equipment and I was being treated like dirt.
With Universal healthcare what happens to medical research? The reason people pour money into it, is because there is money to be made. So what happens when the gov't takes over healthcare? Also with our country drowning in our ever growing deficit how can we afford to dabble in everyone's healthcare? Now that it's been labeled a tax I really hope Congress will over turn it or at least make it so it can't be implemented. I really fear for our country. Being overseas you get a fresh perspective and get to see it from Europe's eyes and it's not pretty.