George Carlin on Education and the owners of America

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Originally Posted by skippy3481

More people should have healthcare, but the government should not run it. Name one country where socialized medicine has ever worked? I won't give you much time beacause there isen't one. Thats why canadians stream across the border to get medical help if something really goes wrong. Just ask yourself one question, If you had rare form of cancer..... what country would you seek medical treatment in?

As a country,we spend more on healthcare than those countries with socialized medicine.They underfund it(which is what politicians do to programs they don't agree with.)If you don't fund it properly,then of course it isn't gunna be satisfying .To answer your question,if I could get treated anywhere I want,it would be Germany,Switzerland,or Scandinavia.I don't know where the idea comes from that says it's more efficient to pay a middleman huge profits for services to citizens.It doesn't make any sense.It's stupid.If you ever just looked at what you're talking about,you would see that it's cheaper to provide a service if you aren't trying to make a billionaire a billion more dollars. Simply look at PGRDN'S school district.They are out to do what? Make profit? No,they are there to provide a service.Nobody is getting rich off that school district.If it was a for profit school district,then they would have worse healthcare for teachers,and worse pensions for them(if any.) That's how they would afford to pay some guy a 10 mil a year for owning it.Well,just ask PGRDN why he doesn't teach at a private school.