Posted by West on March 1, 2009, at 14:33:00
In reply to Re: Doctors in England-detroitpistons » West, posted by detroitpistons on March 1, 2009, at 13:11:49
A nation that has at its bedrock the acquisition of private wealth through trade might be hypothesized to lead inevitably to the status quo you describe. It's true no conservative here would be in favour of abolishing national healthcare, on the contrary, tory and labour governments have consistenly built establishments for the express puropose of caring for the poor and needy. The victorians were a civilised lot and when not building bridges, civic buildings and half of britain they pondered morality extensively
The problem it seems is in size. Organising something like the nhs from a centralised government on the scale of nation like the US is simply too great a prospect for anybody, however good their intent.
Perhaps creating separate interstate healthcare organizations with central funding brought about by a mandatory tax, might be thought a realistic option. Since most gnvt revenue in the US goes to the military and safeguarding its global superiority i doubt if there'd be much left for muggins and his unshakable melancholy.
Another idea might be to include lowering the mandatory requirements for healthcare or recognizing specific 'hotspots' where an individual is especially vulnerable: a depressed or otherise mentally ill individual who cannot earn a living and who cannot gain an already undesirable insurance plan because of his own undesirability in the eyes of the insurer would i think pass for one.
Ok. Sorry for the brevity, but to summarise ( yes with an 's' at the end - where i notice spellcheck will only settle for a z. silly yanks, you must learn to spell properly :0 )... i am variously: shocked at the cost of your effexor, which is entirely proposturous, appalled that someone with an affliction which fulfills so totally the criteria for 'terrible' and 'death' should have to suffer further at the hands of such a corrupt and indifferent healthcare system, impressed at your writing; its balance and coherence (which can only reflect a working mind, which is good), hopeful that change will happen for you, for america, for everyone.
Get you doc to keep those free pill samples coming. I don't care what they are, just as long as you don't let your brain go through the awful all round cell-death and hippocampus shrinking that depression brings about. 3 months ago i wouldn't have been able to string a sentence together whereas you just wrote 8 or 9 paragraphs all of which sounded like good sense to me. Keep it up.
West
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