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Originally Posted by Mistress
I can't tell you how many patients I have seen from Europe who have "public healthcare" and couldn't wait 6 years to have reconstruction done, so they opted to pay out of poocket and come to the US instead.
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We have some good hospitals here in the US.
And a system that works pretty well if you can afford to pay for good health insurance.
But we have 56 million uninsured American citizens that do not fair as well as the Europeans you have seen that have enough money to fly here and seek health care.
Do we only want rich people to have access to hospitals ?
The argument for health care reform in America is about access to services.
Not about the quality of the services.
And there is nothing in the bill that would create a single payer system, or government run hospitals similar to the European model.
Public Option does not equal Socialized Medicine, or Public Healthcare.
Though there seems to be many that want to mislead you into thinking it does.