Oh come on Ronald, it works just fine in other countries. You mean to tell me America is so shitty it can succeed where other countries have as well?
Ask Greece, Spain, Portugal, France and others how it's working. Closer to home ask Detroit, Chicago, Illinois, San Bernadino etc., etc
Or we could look at Denmark, Sweeden, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Norway. are you going to sit there and tell me that these countries are better than us? That they can succeed at something we can't? The problem with healthcare in America is the profit motive. It pays to keep us all sick.
We are different...much larger less homogenous with a very different tradition of social development. The problem with healthcare in the U.S. Is not profit motive but crony capitalism and the lack of true competition. Big healthcare is arm in arm with the government preventing a true market from forming and prices artificially high. Open up the whole market to competition and costs will go down and be more affordable to all.
One more point @LaSalleAve are you willing to pay the tax rates in those countries? Look at the chart below and see both the rate and threshold to pay that rate. The 'free' healthcare ain't so free my friend. http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/01/pf/taxes/top-income-tax/
Yes, for the luxury of knowing that if I get sick my life won't be ruined, I won't have to sell my house, or get booted, take another job, you're damn right.
