As Americans search for the cure to what ails our health-care system, we've overlooked an invaluable source of ideas and solutions: the rest of the world. All the other industrialized democracies have faced problems like ours, yet they've found ways to cover everybody -- and still spend far less than we do.
Of course, the only problem with Reid's analysis is that he disregards the hubris prevalent in many American’s. The blinding, arrogant belief, that we are still the best at everything. A quick look at the comments attached to the article perfectly illustrates this. While most of the comments seem to endorse Mr. Reid’s analysis, one comment leaps out with the pure selfishness that seems to dominate the conservative mindset.
There's an easy solution for people who don't want to buy health insurance. Make them pay for their treatment up front. And if someone bleeds to death on the ER floor because they can't prove they have the money to pay before receiving treatment, oh well, too bad, so sad. Should have thought about that before deciding you have a right not to buy insurance. It's a too way street.
Perhaps I should simply disregard the ranting of a person who does not even know the difference between “two” and “too”. But what this person fails to realize is that some of us do not have a right to buy health insurance. As a parent with an eighteen-year-old cancer survivor, who still requires twice a year MRI tests, there is no company that will sell us insurance. At least not at a rate that would be affordable. More importantly, what is my daughter to do once she is out of college and needs to find her own health care coverage?
I do not like to wish ill on anyone, but should that commenter or a member of his family be stricken with a serious illness, I think his opinion would quickly change
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