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Quiet Man Cometh
We're all mad here.
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It's true that there I often have to wait a few days to a week in order to get a doctor appointment, but that has to do with there being too many patients for each doctor, not with there being free health care. If you're really sick, you don't book a doctor's appointment anyway. You find a walk-in clinic where you don't need an appointment, or you do to the emergency room.
True, wait times are an issue in some areas of health care, but that's natural when the pool of people receiving health care is larger. One could make the argument that universal health care is bad because it means people need to wait for treatment, but then another person could say that better to have the wait times and treat everyone then to cut people out of the system who can't afford it. A person that dies on a wait list is just as dead as the person who dies because they can't afford to get the treatment they need.
This is all over simplifying things but picking apart health care is probably the topic of several theses.
Tea?
Posted 11-12-2013, 09:45 PM