Search for Explanations of the American Health Disadvantage Relative to the English
May 31st 2011, 2:32 am
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Re: Search for Explanations of the American Health Disadvantage Relative to the Engli
My American husband didn't think much of public healthcare before he came to live with me in the UK (even though for several years he had no insurance which would have been a disaster had he been taken ill or injured at that time).
He's changed his mind now having experienced our healthcare system. He has no complaints, and he receives on-going treatment for his depression, plus he has had an ambulance to hospital with a kidney stone attack and was so grateful not to have to worry about paying for the treatment, filling in forms etc, when he was in so much pain.
I can never understand why Americans support public education but not public healthcare. I mean healthcare is actually more essential than education, you can choose not to have children but you usually can't choose not to be sick.
He's changed his mind now having experienced our healthcare system. He has no complaints, and he receives on-going treatment for his depression, plus he has had an ambulance to hospital with a kidney stone attack and was so grateful not to have to worry about paying for the treatment, filling in forms etc, when he was in so much pain.
I can never understand why Americans support public education but not public healthcare. I mean healthcare is actually more essential than education, you can choose not to have children but you usually can't choose not to be sick.
That's a logical fallacy, because people support one they should support the other... If you want to discuss why/how public education is unconstitutional and immoral then I'm game for that.
May 31st 2011, 2:39 am
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Re: Search for Explanations of the American Health Disadvantage Relative to the Engli
My American husband didn't think much of public healthcare before he came to live with me in the UK (even though for several years he had no insurance which would have been a disaster had he been taken ill or injured at that time).
He's changed his mind now having experienced our healthcare system. He has no complaints, and he receives on-going treatment for his depression, plus he has had an ambulance to hospital with a kidney stone attack and was so grateful not to have to worry about paying for the treatment, filling in forms etc, when he was in so much pain.
I can never understand why Americans support public education but not public healthcare. I mean healthcare is actually more essential than education, you can choose not to have children but you usually can't choose not to be sick.
He's changed his mind now having experienced our healthcare system. He has no complaints, and he receives on-going treatment for his depression, plus he has had an ambulance to hospital with a kidney stone attack and was so grateful not to have to worry about paying for the treatment, filling in forms etc, when he was in so much pain.
I can never understand why Americans support public education but not public healthcare. I mean healthcare is actually more essential than education, you can choose not to have children but you usually can't choose not to be sick.
May 31st 2011, 2:40 am
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Re: Search for Explanations of the American Health Disadvantage Relative to the Engli
May 31st 2011, 2:41 am
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Public health-care will be as efficient as the United States Postal Service and as cost-effective as the public education system...
The USA can be the envy of the world... Just print up twelve trillion new dollars worth of monopoly money and fund the program...
May 31st 2011, 2:43 am
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What is the tenth plank of the communist platform outlined in the Communist Manifesto?
http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/wua11.shtml
10. Free education for all children in public schools; Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form
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* Gradual shift from private education to state funded education began in the New England States in the early 1800s.
* Smith-Lever Act of 1914.
* Smith-Hughes Act of 1917.
* Federal school lunch program, 1935.
* Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938 - children work only with government approval.
* National School Lunch Act of 1946.
* National Defense Education Act of 1958.
* Federal School Aid Act of 1965.
Communist percentage: 95%.
May 31st 2011, 2:45 am
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Don't feed the troll.
May 31st 2011, 7:13 am
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May 31st 2011, 7:17 am
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The US already spends more money per head than nearly every country on healthcare, yet they have a much lower percentage with adequate coverage, and that's a separate issue from those with no coverage.
May 31st 2011, 7:22 am
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May 31st 2011, 4:48 pm
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