The Lemon

Any person that shows up to ER gets healthcare...how stupid is it that you have to go to the ER if you have no other coverage. No wonder it costs the system more. It's called clinics. Second, they will also send you a bill for going to the ER and in many cases if you don't pay will hand your debt over to collections agencies. Not an easy thing to pay, if you can't afford insurance, and you owe 10's of thousands.

One of the most false statements on this subject is
"In the U.S., care is rationed on ability to pay - not health status."
That's total BS. Any person that shows up in an American ER will be treated regardless of ability to pay....and any that tells you any different is a liar.

Actually, the statement is half correct. Plus, a hospital in my area had to close down recently because of this ill-found mandate to treat everyone. Now no one can get treatment from that hospital because it is closed.

This video describes for-profit health plan practices. In the U.S., care is rationed on ability to pay - not health status. Other industrialized nations with national health care are democracies. If their health care systems are so bad, they would change it. Taiwan copied Medicare. It's not like auto insurance where you can control your costs by a being careful driver. Health is not a commodity. We have limited control over our health. Healthy, nonsmokers still get cancer. I want HR 676.

If you want it then move to Canada...they can always use another quack.

"rationing" based on ability to pay is INFINITELY better than government-controlled rationing. Private healthcare is ALWAYS better than government-controlled tax-and-spend vote buying schemes that masquerade as "universal healthcare"

I am from a europe capitalist country and we have universal health care.
i understand the situation explained, but one case is not the all system. And in the USA one of six (43.6 million) don´t get any kind of medical treatement.
What is the problem with public health care? if like here and every place who have money can go to the private physician, but who don´t can´t afford, at least have a option.

I had government "free" health care here in the US when I was in the military. I used to come out of pocket and go to private clinics so I could have control over my treatment. People don't just get turned away for lack of ability to pay. They will be stabilized and the cost of that treatment will be passed on to someone who can pay. If people who can't pay were sent packing then health care in the US wouldn't be so costly.

any country condemned to the tyranny of "universal" government healthcare system is NOT capitalist.

Your inflated anti-capitalist statistics represent are laughingly biased. There are at most 8-10 million chronically uninsured. The 40+ million LIE includes people who do not need and do not want insurance, who can afford it but prefer not to play by insurance rules, who qualify for other government programs, who are in America illegally, and the temporarily uninsured. Hardly a "crisis" at all.

universal health care is great....until you get sick or get old or get put on a waiting list or get denied or get on other waiting lists or dying.