I personally live under a goverment run healthcare system and I can tell you that no cost is to expensive... case in point... in Denmark if you have a decease and you and your doctor find that the best treatment is so and so but it is experimental and not yet available in Denmark but it is being tested in Germany or Britain or... you get your travel + hospitalbill + treatment in set country paid for by the healthcare system even if there are other cheaper but not so effective treatments available in Denmark... and if you have a timesensitive decease like cancer you have the option to go to a private run hospital with no waitinglist and the healthcare system pays the bill...

Now people still die of cancer and the like but because we get preventive care it gets caught much earlier which is why a lower percentile in Denmark die of these deceases and there are fewer remissions... and we have a higher lifeexpectency...

And NOBODY gets denied treatment because it's to expencive...

Now you would be right about insurance if there were other options (like a public option or the cheaper universal healthcare)... but if private healthinsurance is the only option for healthcare for the large majority then that argument doesn't hold anymore... or if it does you just made a killer argument for a public option or universal healthcare for all those people (about 70% acording to the polls) that want to be fully covered no matter what :-D

Love Thothlike

by Thothlike on 11/04/2009 01:16:23 PM EST

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