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ER, I meant to type some in every healthcare system can't afford healthcare....:roll:
I thought that's what you meant. I was going to reply to the other post, as if, but I'll just reply to his one.
In England it is not a matter of being able to afford it. Everybody gets it. And, yes, it was a pain in the ass:
- I lived there for a year (2018~2019). Before going, I shifted my family's domestic regional Tricare (government socialism) to international so we would be covered for anything. However, I discovered that it was easier just to use their system. To use my insurance I would have had to find specific doctors that deal with private insurance. The only advantage was a quicker appointment with a doctor. The medicines cost the same or cost nothing as those who used their public system.
Which made me think about our system, where I have had to wait over a month to see my doctor for a wrecked out ankle just a year prior; and I have consistently had to pay co-pays for appointments and medicine. Thus, it can be a pain in the ass in America too, where we stubbornly refuse to socialize medicine.
I can't see where some Americans use "longer lines" as their excuse to deny health care to their fellow Americans. There are sometimes lines there and there are sometimes lines here. The "can't afford it" nonsense is a lie, especially when we consider that we allow corporations to get away with paying zero taxes on hundreds of billions of dollars; and considering how we waste money on bloated Defense contracts that we don't need. Socialized medicine in America merely comes down to an ideology that has many Americans absolutely petrified of the Soviet Union. We deny ourselves our potential to be far greater than we are because we are thoroughly petrified of simple words (in which plenty prove even on this site not to really even understand).
And make no mistake: this is because capitalists, corporations, banks, and their hooker politicians have manipulated the American population into this feeling. In the 1920s, the Roaring Twenties was the answer to the Bolshevik Revolution, in which we led the world to Great Depression. Despite the emergence of the Nazi and World War II, the Red Scare occupied capitalist minds throughout until McCarthyism was used to promote unfettered capitalism against communist enslavement. Reagan's "evil empire" description of the Soviet Union was tied to communism and socialism. And today, largely conservatives, cling to these terms as their excuse to be obtuse about just about everything. "The left" is constantly the boogeyman trying to obliterate their liberty. In the meantime, those very capitalist that engineered this feeling have consistently turned to government for hand-outs and tax subsidies in what is supposed to be a "free market," thus proving how they use socialism and even fascism to their financial advantage. When Clinton assisted them in dismantling Glass-Steagall, which was created to protect capitalism from itself, they went on to bring the world the Great Recession before going to government, hat in hand, to beg for government assistance. They got it. <---socialism.
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