Do you think American medical system is the best in the world?
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ERRRR NO WHY SHOULD YOU HAVE TO PAY TO B TREATED, DO YOU NOT PAY TAXES FOR THAT KINDA THING!!!!\n\nVERY DISCRIMINATORY TO THE POOR PEOPLE
456945
I guess FDR was the best President.  But in modern times. America never had it so good as when Bill Clinton was President. Forget all the Monica stuff. The country was in a great state.
885942
I totally agree with you. We really need to change our health and how we take care of ourselves as Americans.
399777
You could say that the British *way* of government is the best but not necessarily that the British government itself is the best.\n\nOur parliamentary system is known as the mother of all parliaments and has been a model used for centuries throughout pretty much all the demcracies in the world.  Each country has of course, it's own rules and regulations and it's own way of doing things but the system is based on the British system.\n\nI wouldn't necessarily agree with your comments.  You say that we have low taxes, in fact, we have higher than average taxes paying 41p in every £1 earned as tax.  This compares quite well to the EU as a whole (48p) but quite poor in comparison to other countries (29p in the US for example).\n\nOur economy isn't particularly healthy and today's announcement of thousands of job losses at Peugeot is a good example.  If it weren't for the trillions of dollars worth of north sea gas and oil that's been keeping the economy afloat for 32 years then we, as a nation, would have been bankrupt a long time ago.  We used to be world leaders in textiles, ship-building, steel, electronics, engineering, railways but all these industries have long since declined.\n\nWe do have free healthcare but the NHS, which was once the envy of the world, is in crisis.  Huge sums of money have been pumped into it yet we can only staff it by draining the resources of other countries by paying their doctors and nurses to come over here.\n\nThe safety net you mention costs over £100 billion a year, that's the equivalent of £5,000 for every single household in the country.  Considering that the average household gets nowhere near this amount it demonstartes just how much is wasted on bureaucracy.  To give you one example from when my Dad worked for the government... It was decided to look into the possibility of moving one of the government departments to new offices, it cost us (the taxpayer) £94 million for them to decide to stay where they were.
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Public health system: Americans demand the best and most up to date health care - that costs. We also have a LOT of hypochondriacs that drive up the cost of health care, because they order every concievable test. Americans also are less likely to see a primary care physician regularly.\n\nMore importantly, because most people aren't paying out of pocket for health care, the costs actually go up, because no one shops around. That drives up everyone elses cost, and really screws the poor uninsured bastards.\n\nWorse, since many people don't see a doctor regularly, they instead go to the ER when something goes wrong - which drives up costs since prevention is far cheaper than solving the problem once it's gone to hell.\n\nHowever, the claim that there is no public health system is partially false. Life-threatening treatment will be provided. The indigent's treatment is paid for by the state, as are many children (into the lower-middle class). \n\nAlso, America's economy benefits greatly from the lack of a fully funded health system - the hard part is creating a public health system without hobbling the economy (like a large part of Europe).\n\n2.) Katrina's poor response is a good example of how federalism can backfire. In short, New Orleans is a crappy place to deal with an emergency, the local and state governments historically can't take a crap without going to committee (and overcharging the taxpayers), and the Feds assumed the Locals were going to bear the brunt of the planning. Whoops.
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Healthcare should be available to all people regardless of age, sex, race, ect...  Limited availability of health care is usually a result of the economic situation of a country.  The health care system of the USA is driven by cold hard cash and capitalism.  The good thing about this is that if you have tons of cash you will recieve excellent care.  The drawback is that most people get substandard treatment if they are poor or middle class.  It's harsh but true.  There are so many people who are only in health care for the money rather than the humanistic altruism behind the hippocratic oath.
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America is not the best country in the free world (or any other world).\n\n1.  America traps millions of its own citizens in poverty.\n2.  America denies basic health care to millions of its own citizens.\n3.  America is ruled by a president who became president by means of fraud.\n4.  America's economy is dragged down by the nation's militarism.\n5.  America's primary and secondary school system was created by big business for the purpose of generating conformity, and it works.\n6.  America supports genocide committed by other countries who are friendly towards western big business.\n7.  America ignores genocide committed by people who 'don't matter' against people who 'don't matter.'\n8.  America has repeatedly interfered in the affairs of other sovereign nations, generally for the purposes of making itself wealthier and improving its ability to control the world.\n9.  America's mass media is run by big business and is therefore afraid to explore unpleasant truths (see numbers 1 to 8).\n\nShall I go on?  Sure, why not...\n\n10.  America drops bombs on children.\n11.  American snipers shoot children.\n12.  American foreign policy starves children.\n13.  American foreign policy leaves sick children to die.\n14.  America destroyed Nicaragua.\n15.  America has now destroyed Iraq.\n16.  America is friends with Saudi Arabia.\n17.  America looks the other way regarding human rights abuses in China.\n\nWow, this is getting tiring.\n\n18.  American electoral politics is entirely dominated by two parties who disagree on almost nothing of substance.\n19.  American electoral politics is the preserve of rich people.\n20.  America is a racist nation (see number 1, for starters).\n21.  American big cities have murder rates higher than anywhere else in the 'free' world.\n22.  America is destroying its middle class.\n\nAnd finally, because I have to stop sometime...\n\n23.  Americans habitually deny the truth about America.\n\n(PS  I sound like an ideologue, I know, but I am genuinely open to any of the statements above being shown to be false.)
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Well, one of the things that I think everyone is entitled to is life (life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, for America that is)... and health care has a lot to do with life and sustaining life... \nSure, it may be a bit of a liberal take on the issue, but I guess I just don't see how a capitalistic system can work for something you can't put a price on... a human life... and that's what medicine is in it's most basic form... sustaining life...\nOur health care system right now isn't working at all for most Americans, because they can't afford it... and what's the point, if it doesn't help most people...
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Absolutely not.  Our health care system is a mess, it's true, but I think the best way to fix it is with less government intervention, not more.  You see, as with everything else, you tend to get all the best and most expensive stuff you can when someone else is paying the bill.  Well, if the government is paying the bill, that really means the taxpayers.  It's not fair for healthy people to have their tax burden substantially raised because some others can't or won't take care of themselves.  Which leads to a related point:  If you're paying your own bill, you're more likely to take good care of yourself, so you don't end up paying more than you absolutely have to.
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united states of course is the best choice for realy living.
428757
Depends. If you are living in Sub-Saharan Africa, then, no, not really. If you are living in Vancouver, life is pretty good. As a whole, that's a pretty broad question. It is better to the extent that modern medicine keeps people alive longer. It's worse because all those people that are living longer cost billions of dollars in tax payer money making it difficult to pay for other much need social services. It's better in that it's easier to make and distribute food. It's worse because we have 190,000,000 people in the US that you could easily call "fat".\n\nIt's all relative.
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Not sure what country you're asking about.\nRanking of America's best hospitals for 2005;\nSee link below
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Medical field. One of the best-paying job of all.
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Socialized medicine, like all forms of socialism, has been a world-wide failure. As people throughout the world from the Soviet Union to South America are learning, socialism cannot work. Socialism is fundamentally incompatible with human nature. \n\nHorrible Idea, we do not need another entitlement program in our country.  Would you like to be in a line for a kidney or a liver and never get one?  How about having innovation limited by promoting the status quo and mediocrity?  Don't fall for utopian ideals which are not achievable.\n\n"Throughout the world the story is the same: socialized medicine results in skyrocketing demand for nominally "free" health care, doctors are overburdened, medical services steadily deteriorate, and there are endless waiting lists for health care. In the Soviet Union before the collapse of Communism, anesthetics, painkillers, and most drugs were rationed; 57 percent of hospitals had no hot running water; and it was standard practice to clean needles with steel wool and reuse them.  In New Zealand, which has a population of just 3 million, there is a waiting list of 50,000 for surgery."\n\nMedicare and Medicaid are imposing horrendous costs upon American taxpayers. There is no free lunch. When health care is "free" (i.e., indirectly financed by taxation), there is little incentive for either patients or doctors to minimize costs. Government-guarantee medical services raise prices and costs, result in massive waste, and create a bureaucracy in a futile attempt to control costs. \n\nGovernment should get out of the medical insurance business. We will get far better value for our health care dollars if we spend them directly ourselves. \n\nI surely do not want this to happen here in the USA, and you shouldn't either!!  Please read the links.  Educate yourself and others about the truth!!
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Health care in Russia is supported by the government and is available for free. Their healthcare system is 10000 times better than the american one. The atrocious insurance-based system in the US still baffles me, i cannot get adequate health care here, and i have state benefits, the best possible in my state.
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Adequate and timely medical care for all American citizens is already available. Do you need a list of companies to purchase it from? I have Afflac.
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i do not know about  united states,but here in india you need any where between 2500 dollors to 5000 $,in best hospitals.