***OFFICIAL 'Sicko' Thread***

[senseamp]

Originally posted by: Jmman
I haven't seen it, but if you believe that Cuba has a better health care system than here you are crazy. In Cuba if you go to the hospital and you are not one of the elite you have to bring your own sheets, food, towels, etc. Our system has its faults, but socialized medicine is not the answer.....

Cuba spends 1/30th of what we do on healthcare. Yet they get similar results as far as health metrics are concerned. Not saying their healthcare is better, but you can't deny it's much more cost efficient.

 

[Printer Bandit]

Originally posted by: Jmman
I haven't seen it, but if you believe that Cuba has a better health care system than here you are crazy. In Cuba if you go to the hospital and you are not one of the elite you have to bring your own sheets, food, towels, etc. Our system has its faults, but socialized medicine is not the answer.....

watch it and come back.

 

[NanoStuff]

Originally posted by: senseamp
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: NanoStuff
Haven't seen it, but if it suggests USA should adopt a social health care system, I piss on it. Subsidized possibly, but if you were being careless with your finances, got cancer and had no money to pay for treatment, sucks for you, I wouldn't give you a quarter. In some ways the system works, stupid people should die.</end quote></div>

I hope you never get sick, because your statement is just plain naive.
It's not just stupid irresponsible people getting bankrupted by medical bills.

This is why I said subsidized, where the treatment is covered partially if high in cost, this allows the free market to function in medical advancements as people are still required to make choices as to which treatment to pursue, unlike a socialistic method of being forced onto a range of treatments that have been preselected, unless you would rather pay for the entire thing yourself, the subsidies would also be restricted to people that don't have poor credit history. So even if you don't have the funds, perhaps of a young age and have not yet had the opportunity to develop savings, you will be subsidized, but you are still required to pay your share of the cost. If you don't have the money, you must take it on credit. If you have bad credit and cannot take it on credit, you will die. It's sad, but that's personal responsibility for you. Of course you can always get health insurance. Socialist healthcare is a close equivalent to forced health insurance, with additional drawbacks. In the current system you have a choice, sucks for you if you don't make the right one.

 

[lyssword]

Micheal Moore looks like Peter Griffin from Family Guy One of my fav comedy cartoons

 

[timosyy]

Originally posted by: eits
for fvck sake... does everyone have to repost threads?

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...rd1=official+AND+sicko

there's already an official sicko thread.

huh?

 

[Platypus]

I saw Moore on Larry King last night, he answered every question by introducing a completely unrelated point, it was painful to watch.

 

[Printer Bandit]

Originally posted by: Platypus
I saw Moore on Larry King last night, he answered every question by introducing a completely unrelated point, it was painful to watch.

link to video of interview?