2nd and 3rd place are consolation prices. They're as good as a participation ribbon.

Lol
2nd place out of millions is a consolation? You must have a lot of gold medals yourself to believe that.

Credibility?



This post was edited by majorblood on Mar 1 2010 11:41pm

i would suppose the american average does not factually reflect people who do not get injured - i mean the 7,920$ is a average never actually met, since people either pay for their surgery[ridiculously expensive] or dont at all.

our system profits the most the poor, yours the rich.

our rich can go to your country for surgery so i suppose it works out for both, except your poor.

This post was edited by majorblood on Mar 2 2010 12:13am

Your system can not benefit people as well as ours because you lack technology.
We're poor.... yet have vastly superior medical technology. Of course it's going to cost more.

Having private healthcare creates competition, driving the advancement of technology.
With universal healthcare doctors work day and night to treat an ever-continuing line of patients. But despite their best efforts,
your yearly salary remains so similar to that of your neighbor doctor.
And because everybody has an equal chance, there is no medical priority... and half of the patients you look at are not cases at all,
but an overreaction from a concerned mother.

"1. Establishing a Universal Healthcare system will reduce the quality and drive, as well as flexibility of our healthcare due to lack of competition."

@dvlpup89 How does it feel losing to Canada after you made those racial remarks about people from Quebec?

Lol I made racial remarks about people from Quebec?

I think either you don't understand the difference between you're and your or you think I may not.

I understand the libertarian argument of competition being an advocate in the advancement of technology, but it seems as though you're missing or not understanding my point. The American system and Canadian health-care system can co-exist somewhat functionally. Both have the individual problems. The poor greater benefit from the Canadian system, while the opposite is true in the American.

But onto a secondary point... The biggest problem with your[America's] system is the unduly regulations behind the education necessary to become a doctor. A doctor in America that wants to specialize in something specific(say vision) must attain the qualifications to preform all fields. This means the doctor who prescribes your glasses technically has the ability to preform brain surgery. These unnecessary regulations are sky-rocketing the costs of university education for such practices of medicine, which in turn raises the price of surgery, etc. If such regulations were removed, or at least lowered, the number of lesser doctors[said modestly] would vastly increase. This would create your competition and would make healthcare so much more affordable for the average citizen.

I do think you have the basics for a better system, it just has some major flaws.

This post was edited by majorblood on Mar 2 2010 01:27am

just failed sir