Barney Frank & the Health Care Idiots

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Saerules: That's about how you'll feel if the government takes over healthcare and forces private companies out of business. You are also very young and when you are eighteen you will be your own boss. I'm sure your parents feel like they are helping you. You'll be eighteen before you know it and I promise you that even though you will have a lot of fun being an adult...you'll think back on your childhood and wish you could go back now and then. My parents got me a new car when I was 16. The day I got my license I went to the dealership to pick it out. A year later and a few speeding tickets later I totaled it passing three cars on a wet country road going about 75MPH. It's not always fun to be cut lose at a young age. Those speeding tickets and accident almost cost me my license, a few hundred dollars in fees and court costs, and a hell of a lot more for my insurance coverage. I think they are trying to protect you from things like that.

I am British.

Here the American health care system is a horror tale told in the dark on camping trips.
Private companies do not care one jot about helping people they care about money and that is all.

My middle child has been in hospital for months at a time on multiple occasions.
The service was good on the NHS and more importantly free at the point of usage.

The only contribution I make is a modest affordable amount in taxes.
If the same happened in America I would be on the street, I am not highly paid but probably earn too much for medicare.

The system you have now is the worlds most expensive with one of the lowest rankings in the developed world.

The NHS might not be perfect but it is many many times better than the American alternative.