Socialized Medicine? Ask a Doc!

A young Doctor speaks out against socialization of the doctor patient relationship and the "toxic intersection" of Govt and Insurance Corporations in your health.

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• medicine
• socialism
• ron
• paul
• health
• care

[hairhorn]

how come no one complains about socialized roads and socialized policing and socialized firefighting?

[orcapod]

People do, but this is the issue people are talking about, right now, this campaign.

[manicmetropolis]

why are those overseas happy with their healthcare if it is so bad?

[FibonacciPrower]

How, exactly, does socialised medicine hinder that doctor-patient relationship?

[juxtn]

Why do we have to constantly inject terms like "centralized" and "socialized", read up on any reference source and socialized medicine is distinctly defined as government ownership of hospitals, clinics and doctors and nurses are civil servants. Most health care systems that cover everyone does not take on this form. Most health care in other countries is subsidized not owned, and even this is not necessarily centralized, but local and regional in manner. Stop spreading such propaganda.

[cnunn85]

@DInara1999 If your friend was stabbed at 3 am, why didn't he go to the Emergency Room? And, we have medical malpractice here too. Those doctors who cut out wrong organs would prolly be bad no matter where they practice.

[DInara1999]

@manicmetropolis I am from another country where we have auniversal healthcare....I'll tell you, you just don't know what you are asking for. I was never satisfied with this kind of healthcare....In Britain my friend couldn't find a doctor when he was stabbed at 3 a.m. ..... or another thing is that doctors cut out wrong organs because they are not professional

[hauskalainen]

I have never had to have an insurance company come between me and my doctor. And certainly never any government official ever gets in the way.

Its just me and my doctor and we decide together what to do. Sane here in Finland as it was in England.

Physician Co-pays are £0 and max €36 a year in Finland

Drug co-pays are £8 in UK and 50% in Finland (max to €500 pa)

I can recomment socialized medicine

[muratshawn]

where I come from College education up to ph.d is free of charge my dumb uneducated American retarded friend. I graduated debt free like every single person earning a degree in Europe. Heck,we don't even have to pay for books. Your system is a rip off and scandal,and you only do that,if the government knows,its own people are dumb and retarded.

Where I was from,getting an education is a right and not a privilege like here!!!

[lexaeus88]

Right, cause they're just greedy. You dumb ass. Are you going to pay for my med school costs?!

ASSHOLE!!

[sodaphine]

you believe this shit you spout? let me guess.... white, middle class, mummy and daddy got it covered? Nah, you don't need anybody's help - *everyone* in America is given a chance....right?

Idiot.

[sodaphine]

hahahaha! Travel, you fool! I'd put my life in the hands of a govt isued doctor over a private "agenda based" one any day. I want my doctor assessing my health based on what he can do for my health, not whether I can afford the bill. I pity America - I really do. And I pity your inability to understand that your system screws you all. Don't you think you're worth more than the shit you put up with? Even the most underfunded universal healthcare system is better than your crappy private system!

[muratshawn]

This is the kind of doctor u do not wanna have or see. See, the kinds of physician who are against universal healthcare are smart,they know why they are against it,its the money. See with universal healthcare a doctor can not set his own greedy pricing anymore and charge a patient lets say 5o0 bucks for an x ray,if it indeed cost 25 bucks. So government health care would benefit the people,you and me. See insurance companies give bonuses to doctors,to not inform a patient of a serious ilnness

[061369317]

Yeah, really ?

Je m'appelle Marc Patiou, j'habite à Compiègne, dans l'Oise.

Je suis né à Montreuil (93) en 1969.

Je suis commerçant, je suis marié, et j'ai trois enfants.

You can check my profile on facebook, type in 'Marc Patiou', and see if I'm American or French :-)))

As an added information, most French people have to pay a private health insurance (here we call them 'mutuelles') beside the 22% they pay on their earnings for public health and retirement systems.