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Nope, I buy my own. Oh, and before someone starts screaming "Obamacare!!" you can buy your own healthcare insurance outside of Obamacare and you always could.
No, the people impacted by the topic of this thread could not.
But why would there not be enough doctors to begin with?
How could there be a shortage of doctors compared to other 1st world industrialized nations when the privatized for-profit system is supposedly so great?
Shouldn't the market forces be attracting doctors here from every corner of the globe?
Is this more cartelism?
Actually, there isn't a shortage of doctors "compared to other 1st world industrialized nations." That's just you randomly making things up (as usual). Also, this isn't a "privatized for-profit system," which is also you just making things up (as usual). In fact, in the UK, which is a nationalized system, there were so few physicians they had to import foreigners to do the work, a practice they sharply curtailed when some of the Muslim physicians started killing people, as you recall. Also, many foreigners come to America for training, so as is the case with everything, America is supporting the world.
Nope, I buy my own. Oh, and before someone starts screaming "Obamacare!!" you can buy your own healthcare insurance outside of Obamacare and you always could.
Then why did you state earlier in the thread that you paid COBRA and found it affordable? Something is not adding up here. Please explain.
Actually, there isn't a shortage of doctors "compared to other 1st world industrialized nations." That's just you randomly making things up (as usual). Also, this isn't a "privatized for-profit system," which is also you just making things up (as usual). In fact, in the UK, which is a nationalized system, there were so few physicians they had to import foreigners to do the work, a practice they sharply curtailed when some of the Muslim physicians started killing people, as you recall. Also, many foreigners come to America for training, so as is the case with everything, America is supporting the world.
the UK don't have to import doctors from anywhere.
They are part of the largest block of free movement of labor in the world.
Should they choose to hire workers outside of the EU that is their own choice, perhaps to drive down labor costs?
Regarding USA.
Of course, you are per usual talking nothing but rubbish as statistics plainly show that the US has fewer doctors per capita compared to the best HC systems of the world.
But facts of course, mean nothing to ideologues.
Still waiting for njquestions to provide evidence of his assertion that US consumers pay higher drug prices in order to subsidize R&D, rather than going to shareholder payouts
Then why did you state earlier in the thread that you paid COBRA and found it affordable? Something is not adding up here. Please explain.
Because I've changed jobs more than once in my life. Is that really tough to figure out? Also, this might make you extremely excited, I've spent time being uninsured for years at a time. And somehow I lived! Isn't that amazing? I did the impossible.
Still waiting for njquestions to provide evidence of his assertion that US consumers pay higher drug prices in order to subsidize R&D, rather than going to shareholder payouts
What's wrong, mad that yet another one of your arguments collapsed, like all the others before it?
Because I've changed jobs more than once in my life. Is that really tough to figure out? Also, this might make you extremely excited, I've spent time being uninsured for years at a time. And somehow I lived! Isn't that amazing? I did the impossible.
Good for you. Count your blessings that you have never encountered a health crisis while uninsured. It can wipe you out.
Good for you. Count your blessings that you have never encountered a health crisis while uninsured. It can wipe you out.
Sure, but the reality is the odds are against it. That's the hilarious part about liberals. They act like death is just around the corner (meaning, for people not in their 70s), even for a 25 year old or a 10 year old. The statistical odds of that happening are virtually zero, but it's always "omg, without insurance, you'll definitely get sick and die!" No, actually, you probably won't. Most likely nothing will happen and you'll live. So, yes, someone might get a heart attack at age 38, but the odds are extremely against that. It's why liberals don't grasp insurance and actuarial tables and think "OMG, these rates are unfair!" No, they're not. They're math.
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