Dakini wrote:Buxtahatche wrote:The worst one is where:
1.) the government charges me unknowable amounts of taxes
2.) tells me who I can see
3.) when I can see them
4.) what conditions are 'emergent' and what isn't
and
5.) controls any kind of 'waiting list' for mundane health care.
Seeing as ALL socialized medical systems have these features, I will stick with health care that requires me to pay when I need it, for what I need ONLY, and enables me to get whatever kind of care I damn well feel I need.
Anything else infringes on my rights.
The government doesn't tell me which doctors I can see. I can pick and choose any doctor I want. I can also show up at the emergency room for really anything, though I probably won't be seen for several hours if I come in with a paper cut. Walk in clinics for minor issues are a better bet because this is what they're supposed to deal with...
...and let's not even get to the people I know in the US who have had long emergency room waits.
How about no emergency rooms to wait in even?
Dying for affordable healthcare — the uninsured speak
Lee has just opened an outpost of her clinic in the outlying neighbourhood of Quindaro, an area of boarded-up houses and deserted factories where work is hard to find and crack plentiful and a per capita income is $11,025. A third of the population is below the federally defined poverty line.
And yet the local health department has decided the only health centre in the area will be closed by the end of this year and moved 30 blocks west to a much more prosperous part of the city where income levels are five times higher. Before long, one of the poorest areas of Kansas – of America – will be left without a single doctor, with only Lee's voluntary services to fall back on.
The whole story is a sad indictment of the current US healthcare situation.
