[Carol]

Why are Americans so against the idea of socialised healthcare, especially when private insurance is so expensive as people age or have pre-existing conditions.

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Name : Carol, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 24, City : Berkshire, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Social class : Middle class, 

[DannyH]

Because socialized health care forces someone to give up what they’ve earned and give it to the government for redistribution. Because socialized medicine (just like socialized anything else) stagnates innovation. Finally, because as is the case in the UK right now, it leads to rationed health care for everyone except the political elite, and more deaths, and with holding care from people the state decides are not worth saving. The US has the best health care in the world. The insurance system needs some tweaking, but why switch to the failed policies of Europe? Life’s a banquet and most poor bastards are starving to death!

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[Dot]

But, a system like the NHS wouldn’t work here. The population is too large, too sick (obesity related problems) and too used to living drugged out (anti-depressants, Viagra, et al…) to ever be happy with what true socialized medicine would look like. There are certain state programs that work well but wouldn’t work in all states. Many states here have very large populations of undocumented peoples who take from the health and school systems but don’t pay into them. In my state that very factor alone would leave an NHS style system underfunded in terms of how many people would be using its services. The only thing we can do now is to expand certain existing programs to cover more people. But unless we crack down on the fraud and start focusing services toward people who are actually entitled to them, we will never solve this crisis.

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