Socialized Health Care in the USA

[Thecla]

So, my point in showing you this is that the US system is broken for everyone, both the insured and uninsured alike. The problem is not that the government does not offer a public option, but that the costs of getting catastrophically ill are too high for low, middle, and even upper middle income people to be able to afford.

It's an interesting link.:)

But I do find that trying to understand your logic gives me a headache. The system is broken for the uninsured? Ah yes, but it's also broken for the insured (except for the wealthy). The private system of insurance that is self-paid or partly-paid through ones job is borked? Just goes to show that public health insurance wouldn't solve anything.

And the problem is that people can't afford to pay for their own health care? So the solution is

I believe we need to move towards a system where families pay out of their own pockets for either their care or their insurance

No doubt, of course, this would work just fine in a society where life is nasty, brutish and short (except, as always, for the wealthy).