OBJECTIVISM.

"I don't always twerk, but when I do..."

But doesn't that English degree only qualify you to wait tables? Jking. But in all seriousness awesome SN.

Starred for Tom Baker.

According to him, the proliferation of hospitals (AKA "access") is what is supposed to make our health care system so wonderful — "the best in the world" — despite the fact, even with insurance, you pay twice as much as any other industrialized nation for the same procedure AND — more importantly — there are SO many…

Ahh so amazing. I will struggle to go back to America where refusing people medical treatment is considered patriotic by a large section of the population.

And we Canadians nod in agreement.

Yes, I don't doubt that. Although this isn't something I think can be utterly blamed on the new government. The NHS has been in decline for many many years. In the early nineties my aunt was told that she had nothing wrong with her, when actually she had a blood clot and died a few weeks later. Those kind of things…

Our overlord are furiously trying to halting it because they're worried that once it kicks in we'll all "get addicted to the sugar" the sugar being access to medical attention.

Do you have any links from any medical sites, and not just the Daily Mail and Forbes. Now, I might be completely wrong and those two publications are actually medically based, in which case I apologize profusely, but something tells me that isn't the case.

I know you weren't comparing the NHS to the US healthcare system in this post, but since that's been the gist of most of the thread I wanted to point out that this happens in the US too. I live in a state with a major healthcare shortage. I have a doctor's appointment today that I've been waiting 3 weeks for, for a…

I think people honestly forget that most breast cancer doesn't require chemotherapy. My mum has just hit 2 years cancer free, all she had was a lumpectomy, no chemo, no radiation and she's fine.

Agreed. I lived there for years and had no private insurance. If I hadn't had access to NHS I would have been in big trouble. I got really ill while there and would have been SOL if I hadn't been able to access care.

If you have lots of people who can't pay for healthcare who you can't turn away and must treat for everything from a cold to heart surgery, it's going to be paid for from somewhere and guess what? We are already paying for those people to be treated by paying outrageous prices in hospitals.

Yeah I don't get that. Helping your less fortunate neighbours/citizens is somehow unchristian, yet being a gun nut isn't. There seems to be an american version of Jesus I'm not aware of.

Most of the people who throw the word "socialist" around pejoratively don't even know what it means.

Here in Switzerland we have a similar set up and I too am always puzzled by these people that obviously lack in education yet still scream about things that could help them yet since they don't understand it it's bad. That's a special kind of stupidity.

I had a co-worker argue with me that the Affordable Care Act is awful, because he has a friend whose choices of hospitals are now much more limited.

The main ones are Obamacare will cost way too much to implement (all of a sudden those people are worried about the deficit and debt after two unpaid wars and a Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit when Bush was in office,) force people who don't want insurance to get it (muh liberty!,) it's scary socialism…