They ask; “sir, how much is this doctor visit going to cost you?”

He answers: “nothing”

“historic, yet short lived, congressional majority”

It’s only a matter of time before some democrat congress or president gives every single american free health care.

Seriously.

And it’s only going to happen faster because your republican team has squandered their historicm yet short lived, congressional majority and your idiodic moron of a president has made it nearly impossible to have a republican successor to his historically disgraceful administration.

Your team fucked up. Like, BAD.

And this is what you get for it.

(!)

You have forgotten to include a very substantial cost: The batteries of tests Doctors order not because they are necessary, not because the Doctor thinks they might be necessary, but to cover the bases.

That is a huge, vast, wasted cost.

Reality: Get the F’ing lawyers OUT of the equation if you want real reform.

WHO gives indoor use of DDT a clean bill of health for controlling malaria

Who Cares? The World Health Organization cares more about its own life than the lives of the poor

The medical systems of France and England, on the other hand, are clearly more desirable (than those of Cuba or the US).

More desirable to whom?

26- SICKO:In Canada, dogs can get a hip replacement in under a week. Humans can wait two to three years

Here is a different perspective on Canada’s “free”healthcare system:

Lindsay McCreith, would have had to wait for four months just to get an MRI, and then months more to see a neurologist for his malignant brain tumor. Instead, frustrated and ill, the retired auto-body shop owner traveled to Buffalo, N.Y., for a lifesaving surgery. Now he’s suing for the right to opt out of Canada’s government-run health care, which he considers dangerous.

In 2005, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that “access to wait lists is not access to health care,”striking down key Quebec laws that prohibited private medicine and private health insurance.

Consider, for instance, Mr. Moore’s claim that ERs don’t overcrowd in Canada. A Canadian government study recently found that only about half of patients are treated in a timely manner, as defined by local medical and hospital associations. “The research merely confirms anecdotal reports of interminable waits,”reported a national newspaper. While people in rural areas seem to fare better, Toronto patients receive care in four hours on average; one in 10 patients waits more than a dozen hours.

In Britain, the Department of Health recently acknowledged that one in eight patients wait more than a year for surgery. Around the time Mr. Moore was putting the finishing touches on his documentary, a hospital in Sutton Coldfield announced its new money-saving linen policy: Housekeeping will no longer change the bed sheets between patients, just turn them over. France’s system failed so spectacularly in the summer heat of 2003 that 13,000 people died, largely of dehydration. Hospitals stopped answering the phones and ambulance attendants told people to fend for themselves.

Under the weight of demographic shifts and strained by the limits of command-and-control economics, government-run health systems have turned out to be less than utopian. The stories are the same: dirty hospitals, poor standards and difficulty accessing modern drugs and tests.Admittedly, the recent market reforms are gradual and controversial. But facts are facts, the reforms are real, and they represent a major trend in health care. What does Mr. Moore’s documentary say about that? Nothing.

Ah, there it is! The old torte reform myth and it’s inaccurate spouted relationship to soaring health insurance costs. Reality: medical mal-practice insurance + payments out + lawsuit costs = less than 1/2 of 1% of the total dollars spent on health care in this country each year.

Myth? Do you even know any doctors? It’s no myth..