sir_eccles

Worth highlighting this point. US "healthcare" may be second to none. Access to it and/or ability to pay for it is a different matter.

Rete

Too damn true. Although I do know first hand of a convicted criminal who served several years in the federal pen in West VA, former home of Martha Stewart, who is now out, weighs over 300 lbs and is getting social security disability checks and Medicaid. She has had the best doctors from New York City hospitals giving her two new knees and hips and repairing a hernia. Who said crime doesn't pay.

mrken30

What's wrong with a society where you have to go to jail to get healthcare?

Pulaski

What's wrong is that people who sit on their overweight äř§ës, don't take any care of themselves, and wear out their joints because of their gross obesity, can get treated for free.

mrken30

It's not free it's just passed on to the rest of us. Socialism at work.

Pulaski

Er, yeah. I'm glad it was you that said that.

For clarity, I don't mind helping those that can't pay, but I object to those who won't pay, or who run up unnecessary bills (through self-neglect, or elective treatments) that the rest of us have to pay for.

michaeldc

Yeah but who's to say where the line between can't and won't is? You strike me as someone who might argue on that point...