Someone upstairs screams “QUARTER!” every time this idiot lays his marble filled head down as the hollow sound of a pool hall break gone awry echoes and the clue ball bounces on the basement floor and rolls away.

Our health care system is far from perfect, but people still come here from all over the world to get medical treatment.

Please get some information before you go spouting off about things you know nothing about. It may save you some embarrassment and you may actually learn something new.

And therein lies the problem. In a government managed and rationed health care system, the “coin of the realm” to get better health care is influence, who you are or who you know that can get you better treatment. In the US type of free market care, that “coin” is actually coin, that is money. Money is far more egalitarian than influence. Anyone can get money, borrow, charity, earn it, buy your own insurance, it’s not denied based on position, power, or influence. No system is perfect, but the free market system is more accessible than a regulated and restricted/rationed one.

I’m sorry to hear about the chest pains, and the delays Erik, I hope it works out alright. By contrast, here in the US, I know a person who developed angina, saw a doctor the same day, had a stress test the next day, an angiogram the day after, and two days after that was undergoing cardiac bypass surgery. Less than a week from chest pain to surgery, and he’s doing well now.

You see, when government takes money from you, and use it to pay for your healthcare, then government gets to decide when you get healthcare, and what kind of healthcare you should get. You dont have a say in it, because the government pays the bills. Of course the elite get to go to special hospitals, so they’ll have no problem. (Do you actually think Moore would go to public healthcare clinics if he lived here??)

I’d rather have an american health insurance and travel there every time I got sick. If I pay for it, I get some say in it, and at least then I’d know I’d get to see a doctor if I get sick…

“Why is it that a baby born in Toronto has a better chance of making it to its first birthday than a baby born in Detroit?”

Um, maybe because American doctors are more likely to go the extra mile to save endangered infants.

If you just let a seriously ill baby die at childbirth, it’s not counted as a live birth, and doesn’t go against the infant mortality rate. If you deliver the baby alive, fight to save its life, and fail, you’ve added to the number of babies that don’t make it to the first birthday.

All I see is a lot of empty assertions. You really think you can dismiss this so easily? Why would you want to anyway? Have you given a moment’s real thought to what the problems in American health care are, what the good points and problems of other systems are, and whether we could, in fact, learn something?

Or is this just knee-jerk liberal derangement syndome?