The system is rotten to its core. I'm a "lucky" one. I'm in Europe and I've got a mandatory healthcare which I'm paying big bucks for and I'm also taking an additional insurance, covering fancy costs (like if I want a chamber alone in case I'm hospitalized etc.).
The problem is that this whole crazy-high-prices / insurance / pharmaceutical / medical / doctors / nurses costs are giving a sense of entitlement to basically everyone in this mafia: from the state (which feels entitled to tax everybody up to level that are already considered to be confiscatory to some, like in France) to the practitioners to the insurance companies to the doctors and to the... patients!
And don't you there criticize the highly-socialist nanny state for running on deficit, always creating more and more state debt, or you'll be labelled an ennemy of the human race: "what!? you want the state to give less money to healthcare, you are a cold-hearted selfish man!"
The whole system is rotten and I this point I wonder if I'm going to keep doing exams and going to the doctors.
The drain on the economy is so gigantic that we could already be, today, lagging behind in our understanding of science and medicine compared to where we should have be if we hadn't allocate such a gigantic amount of our resources to this mafia.
It's a big business and it's ugly.
It is indeed slowly killing the entire economy. The problem is way more serious than the derive of finance. Finance looks like a tiny toy compared to the whole healthcare / pharmaceutical / insurance mafia.
In the end socialist and their never to be questioned healthcare cost are going to drive countries to the only possible exit: state default.
And when that is going to happen I can tell you that the quality of the healthcare system is going to take a nasty hit.
You socialists are going to get what you're begging for.
So, is your claim that countries with socialized health care (e.g. France) have economic problems due to the immense spending on health care compared to countries without socialized health care (e.g. United States)?
> In 2005, France spent 11.2% of GDP on health care, or US$3,926 per capita, a figure much higher than the average spent by countries in Europe but less than in the US.
> According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States spent more on health care per capita ($7,146), and more on health care as percentage of its GDP (15.2%), than any other nation in 2008.
> And don't you there criticize the highly-socialist nanny state for running on deficit, always creating more and more state debt
The problem is that this whole crazy-high-prices / insurance / pharmaceutical / medical / doctors / nurses costs are giving a sense of entitlement to basically everyone in this mafia: from the state (which feels entitled to tax everybody up to level that are already considered to be confiscatory to some, like in France) to the practitioners to the insurance companies to the doctors and to the... patients!
And don't you there criticize the highly-socialist nanny state for running on deficit, always creating more and more state debt, or you'll be labelled an ennemy of the human race: "what!? you want the state to give less money to healthcare, you are a cold-hearted selfish man!"
The whole system is rotten and I this point I wonder if I'm going to keep doing exams and going to the doctors.
The drain on the economy is so gigantic that we could already be, today, lagging behind in our understanding of science and medicine compared to where we should have be if we hadn't allocate such a gigantic amount of our resources to this mafia.
It's a big business and it's ugly.
It is indeed slowly killing the entire economy. The problem is way more serious than the derive of finance. Finance looks like a tiny toy compared to the whole healthcare / pharmaceutical / insurance mafia.
In the end socialist and their never to be questioned healthcare cost are going to drive countries to the only possible exit: state default.
And when that is going to happen I can tell you that the quality of the healthcare system is going to take a nasty hit.
You socialists are going to get what you're begging for.