phooph
08-30-2009, 01:48 AM
How American Health Care Killed My Father - The Atlantic (September 2009) (https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200909/health-care)
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Jeffree
08-31-2009, 10:18 AM
So, what else is new?
The Truth is: We would be better off with NO health care system whatsoever, than our current "system" (a non-system, really). This applies to ANY proposed reforms as well. I only wish the populace had the will for a total boycott of our health care system, which is the only thing that could conceivably bring about the needed change.
The Truth is: We would be better off with NO health care system whatsoever, than our current "system" (a non-system, really). This applies to ANY proposed reforms as well. I only wish the populace had the will for a total boycott of our health care system, which is the only thing that could conceivably bring about the needed change.
Yubajeff
08-31-2009, 11:31 PM
And I will add to that: The American Health Care System has killed more people than the Nazi's.
phooph
09-01-2009, 11:29 PM
And I will add to that: The American Health Care System has killed more people than the Nazi's.
According to the National Academyof Science Institute of Medicine, the death toll from medical treatment in the US is around three quarters of a million people a year. Prescription medicine when used as prescribed is the fourth leading cause of preventable death. Now weigh this against the 18-22,000 people who die from lack of health care and we have to wonder which is the better option. :hmmm:
According to the National Academyof Science Institute of Medicine, the death toll from medical treatment in the US is around three quarters of a million people a year. Prescription medicine when used as prescribed is the fourth leading cause of preventable death. Now weigh this against the 18-22,000 people who die from lack of health care and we have to wonder which is the better option. :hmmm:
Nomad
04-04-2010, 01:55 AM
Then where is everyone? All we see out there are the misinformed nut jobs at the town hall meetings and tea party rallies.
Now Congress members and Governors are being threatened, one's brother's gas line was cut, those 9 christian whack jobs they got are just the tip of the iceburg.
Any one who wants a single payer Not For Profit system say 'Aye!'
Now Congress members and Governors are being threatened, one's brother's gas line was cut, those 9 christian whack jobs they got are just the tip of the iceburg.
Any one who wants a single payer Not For Profit system say 'Aye!'
someguy
04-04-2010, 07:46 AM
Then where is everyone? All we see out there are the misinformed nut jobs at the town hall meetings and tea party rallies.
Now Congress members and Governors are being threatened, one's brother's gas line was cut, those 9 christian whack jobs they got are just the tip of the iceburg.
Any one who wants a single payer Not For Profit system say 'Aye!'
I think you might have missed the point of the other posts. If our healthcare system (not lack of healthcare, but the healthcare itself) kills a lot more people per year than lack of healthcare does, how would a universal health care system solve the problem at all? Wouldn't that just change who would be paying for it? (plus we'd still be paying for it through our taxes)
Now Congress members and Governors are being threatened, one's brother's gas line was cut, those 9 christian whack jobs they got are just the tip of the iceburg.
Any one who wants a single payer Not For Profit system say 'Aye!'
I think you might have missed the point of the other posts. If our healthcare system (not lack of healthcare, but the healthcare itself) kills a lot more people per year than lack of healthcare does, how would a universal health care system solve the problem at all? Wouldn't that just change who would be paying for it? (plus we'd still be paying for it through our taxes)