Actually, I do have emergency healt insurance, but I didn't meet my deductible soon enough not to piss me off. The very concept of a deductible is crap. I pay you to cover my ass if I get hurt, but then I have to pay a certain amount of my own way until you finally kick into gear, but being a healthy, relatively young individual means that 'certain amount' is all I usually need to pay from the get go. Yet I still pay these bastards.

As for fixing healtcare, we're not going to do it. America has certain disadvantages:

1) No experience with universal healthcare.

2) Fear of socialism/desire to privatize EVERYTHING.

3) Broke.

4) Kickbacks.

What we need to do is build up a surplus again (not forseeing that happen anytime soon) and then invest in our government corporation (can you say Post Office?) with the specific focus of keeping private companies out, private interests at a minimum, and beuracratic corruption under control.

As for the surplus, an unpopular Republican and a stingy Democrat back-to-back seem to be the way. Yay, Bush/Clinton!

a lot of that money goes to the FDA to protect us from bad drugs that other countries feel free to use

you can take that comment as you like

lol

well there are a lot of different medications that can do a better job of healing then what we have on the US markets but the death/injury/sideeffect rates are too high by FDA standards

therefore a lot of money is spent just testing and try to reach those standards here in the US while other countries are releasing them sooner and of more types for cheaper because they don't have such resctrictions

though they do have more issues with side effects and death/injury rates

we need some crazy conservative here

i am not good at conjuring up bad lies of the canadian healthcare let me try:

@irokoness

yeah thats right that is why all the canadians come to the us for treatment and what about all that canadians dieing while they wait to see a doctor?

-Exile

Well tesb I think if someone feels and can afford to get an op done in the states, more power to them. I would stay at home.

As far as the waiting list, well someone said earlier,"nothings perfect."

It seems that everythings a work in progress. Still no complaints.

OK thought it over and what you said Ryat...

But, I should have said as for waiting lists......personally I have a brother and sister who are cancer survivors.

The only people who are near death because of waiting lists are on tv news.

I'm not denying the waiting list. It might not be as tragique as is set out.

not to mention the people who don't make it on the lists because they are not covered (or facing bancrupcy)

ok now for the trolling:

the us has the best healthcare in the world since all the rich people who want the best of best treatment are comming to the us, suck on this canada.

-Exile

who cares about those illegal immigrants which can't afford it?

any real american will have the money to get the best treatment he wants, everything else are just lies to make you feel bad about the us. damn commies

-Exile

ROFL

what's scary is that there are ones who truly believe that

I know, their everywhere.   Always have, probably always will be.  Sad.

tesb........So I learned a new word today.  trolling.   "word"      

"Conservative" propaganda.....well now your just scaring me.     (not)  I don't see any of your magazines in my doctors office.

And she was brought to the states in pieces. Lady L.

dont' forget Glenn Beck, Obama, Bush, Gore, Ron Paul, Biden, and others

never heard glenn beck say anything against mexicans either

only immigrants who come over illegally (hint: Mexicans are the only ones that get that kind of press from the liberal media)