cerveloguy wrote:
Duffy wrote:
cerveloguy wrote:
Duffy wrote:
Why did he get treated in the US and not in his native Britain?
Pretty sure he has residence in both countries. Its not because of quality of care, there are good heart surgeons in both countries, but in the UK under government healthcare he would have to take his turn and stand in line just like everybody else despite being famous. In the USA money talks in a private healthcare delivery system and he would be pushed to the front of the line.
Socialism in a nutshell.
Everyone gets screwed.
How so? Everybody can get healthcare and that's a bad thing that the zillionaire doesn't get pushed to the line in front of your chronically critical child? You've outdone yourself this time in stupid comments. Universal healthcare is the best thing that ever happened to the world. There's a reason why no other country is trying to copy the USA system.
How so?
He doesn't have an answer for that. Fox News is light on detail. Maybe it's the death panels.
I went >20 years without seeing a doctor, and was happy for my taxes to support our healthcare system then.
More recently I have become a pretty heavy user of the system, and I couldn't be happier now.
I actually have 2 unrelated elective surgeries in the next 4 weeks. I chose the surgeons (both are world class). I chose the hospital (world class). I chose the dates. No insurance, ever, and my out of pocket expenses will be $0. And I pay less tax than I would in the US. (And our federal socialist government announced yesterday its return to budget surplus - no $1trillion pa bill to the grandkids for us. My state has been in surplus for years.).
So how exactly are we all screwed?
Duffy has socialism derangement syndrome.
I hope Jagger has a speedy recovery. I met him once in Paris. He was very gracious in the face of my fanboy excitement.