The problem, for admirers of this system such as yourself, anyway, is that America itself is starting to question such an arrangement. People are beginning to wonder why they can't have a good medical care system without expensive health insurance. They're starting to wonder just why it's necessary to be paying so much.(I have to cut about the bureaucratic nightmare to start a business because it's true...) And they're starting to vote appropriately.
Compare health expenditures and life expectancies. You will wonder why american people pay so much for an average result...
You can spin things any way you want, you won't make your system look good to me.
I am an electrical engineer, French, and living in Japan (That's two reasons for my poor english ^^). Both France and Japan have a fairly extensive healthcare system which covers the poor and the elderly. Yet, as far as I can tell, I don't pay more taxes for healthcare than what I would have to pay to a company were I living in America.
How is it possible? Well, people with higher salaries pay more (some might find this shocking, but it's a good way to provide some equity in a society), we don't have insurance companies that make huge profits, and practicians keep their fares reasonable. (I don't know for Japan, but in France what they can ask for a given medical act is pretty regulated). And that may be the main problem with Obama's plan: you cannot just put patches on the current us system. Well you can try, but will it work?
And in the case you'd like to see what is to my eyes the clearest proof public healthcare works, I invite you to look at the Infant mortality rate on wikipedia. You can also compare it with a GDP map, and wonder why America with its superior GDP lets its children die.
Their reticence is somewhat practical when one considers that fewer people watch Canadian football than watch curling, and nobody outside Canada watches that.
I am sorry, but I have to correct. The Japanese female curling team is quite popular in Japan. Of course, this has nothing to do with the fact that they are passably nice-looking; and the reason I have never seen male curling in Japan is certainly because men can't use brooms.
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The problem, for admirers of this system such as yourself, anyway, is that America itself is starting to question such an arrangement. People are beginning to wonder why they can't have a good medical care system without expensive health insurance. They're starting to wonder just why it's necessary to be paying so much.(I have to cut about the bureaucratic nightmare to start a business because it's true...) And they're starting to vote appropriately. Compare health expenditures and life expectancies. You will wonder why american people pay so much for an average result...
You can spin things any way you want, you won't make your system look good to me. I am an electrical engineer, French, and living in Japan (That's two reasons for my poor english ^^). Both France and Japan have a fairly extensive healthcare system which covers the poor and the elderly. Yet, as far as I can tell, I don't pay more taxes for healthcare than what I would have to pay to a company were I living in America. How is it possible? Well, people with higher salaries pay more (some might find this shocking, but it's a good way to provide some equity in a society), we don't have insurance companies that make huge profits, and practicians keep their fares reasonable. (I don't know for Japan, but in France what they can ask for a given medical act is pretty regulated). And that may be the main problem with Obama's plan: you cannot just put patches on the current us system. Well you can try, but will it work? And in the case you'd like to see what is to my eyes the clearest proof public healthcare works, I invite you to look at the Infant mortality rate on wikipedia. You can also compare it with a GDP map, and wonder why America with its superior GDP lets its children die.
Their reticence is somewhat practical when one considers that fewer people watch Canadian football than watch curling, and nobody outside Canada watches that.
I am sorry, but I have to correct. The Japanese female curling team is quite popular in Japan. Of course, this has nothing to do with the fact that they are passably nice-looking; and the reason I have never seen male curling in Japan is certainly because men can't use brooms.