Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Ted Cruz Bristles At CNN Anchor's Obamacare Questions" video.

The only problem we have with healthcare in the US is cost. Our quality is amazing in the US so what liberals do to lower the cost of healthcare is what other socialize countries do, lower the quality and ration it out. In countries with socialize care you have to wait months to get MRI's and surgery if you can get it. In the US the major horror stories are bankruptcy. You don't have to wait months to get care. Socialize care is great for basic checkups or pregnancy. Those are very basic care and can honestly wait. If you need surgery or something major done with they can't do it or they have to ration it out making you wait. We need to find a way to lower the cost. Like Cruz was getting at creating competition would help, not more regulations on insurance and adding 30 million people to the system.
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***** http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2486789/Natasha-16-complained-headaches-She-died-13-doctors-failed-diagnose-brain-tumour.html That is a story where the NHS has failed. They delayed this girl's care because it is cheaper to find every other option possible before you go to the extreme route. On the US you will get the MRI quickly to plan for the worst and hope for the best. You schedule the MRI and you don't have to wait months to get it. Socialize care is great if you need basic checkups because every doctor can do that and it doesn't cost much. If you need something major done then you either can't get it or wait. That is because it is expensive so that care is rationed out and there are simply not enough doctors. The US had the best system in terms of quality, cost was the only issue. So if you feel a certain group of people need to suffer long wait lines and even die to have affordable care then fine. I rather have bankruptcy then deaths.
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fred6319 It isn't long wait in the hospital but waiting months for something like the MRI. In your case, if it is true, is rare compared to the NHS and other socialize care. But long wait times are true stories from socialize care where in the US the only problem is cost. Fixing the problem of cost shouldn't involved ruining our healthcare quality.
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***** I admitted that the problem of the US care is cost, but ruining our quality to lower cost isn't going to help. Citing Paul Krugman isn't worth much because he has be debunked on so many ways when it comes to economics. He fail to include human thought in any of his ideas. What people like Krugman and yourself want to do is place 30 million more people on a system that simply can't handle it and basically make it "free" for others. With that where is the incentive to manage your finances and healthcare? A reason why we have long wait times in socialize care is because so many people pursue frivolous care that it clogs up the wait times. Also, to reduce cost you have to ration out the care. We can find ways to reduce cost of healthcare. No matter what you will have to worry about cost because socialize care is a terrible alternative to what we have in that the quality will fall apart. If you want socialize care then move to a country that has it. People come to the US for our care, as in my colleague who is Canadian uses the US system because Canada was going to make him wait for knee surgery. So don't ruin the US system, who has the best quality in the world, just because you can't manage your finances.
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realCevra A flawed study. Some decent points there but they mention something like obesity which isn't related to healthcare system. Infant mortality is never recorded the same in all countries. They did say the US has great quality but still proceeded to rate us a 7. If we supposedly lack physicians do you really think that adding 30 million more customers will help? Just skimming the cite it seemed completely bias. You never hear of long wait times in the US compared to the UK and other socialize countries. So our timeliness is in no ways a 7. Cost is the biggest problem in the US, not time, not quality but cost. Yes, people go bankrupt and it is unfortunate but ruining out quality to where people can't even get care isn't going to help. I will read it in more detail later when I have time but right away it seems bias and almost frivolous.
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Jonathan James If you like the NHS so much then move and use that system.
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realCevra Obesity has nothing to do with healthcare programs. It is simply someone eating healthy and staying fit. I know obese people who keep going to the doctor and even at that still are obese. They have access to healthcare but remain obese. The problem in the US is cost, but we do have amazing quality. We don't have wait times, we don't have to ration out our care like what happen to the 16 year old girl in the story I linked. If socialize care is so great then how come people leave their country to get care in the US. My colleague, who is Canadian, put it honestly. Socialize care is great if you need basic care as in a check up or are pregnant. Every doctor can care for that and it isn't a rush issue. But if you need surgery or that major MRI you either have to wait or not get it at all. That is why he got his knee surgery done in the US. He had to pay a lot (his insurance covered most of it) but he got it quickly. Same when his cousin needed heart surgery, his family took him out of Canada to get quick high quality care in the US. He comment overall was that when you experience both you realize the flaws of both and the US system is way better, especially for those that actually care. Another big comparison he made of the two system is that in Canada you get care and then leave. In the US you are more aggressive. You ask the doctor and nurse what is happening to you. What can you do to get better, how much will it cost, what is being done and what will happen from then on. You become more involved with healthcare and take personal responsibility. You don't do that as much with socialize care. I rather take my advice from Canadians who experience both systems then some "fact sheet" that totally removes human thought from their analysis.
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***** Krugman is a fool. We have been using his ideas for the economy for almost half a century now and we are still a mess. He only solution now is more government. Overall, if you look at the WHO ranking, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th ranked countries have a combined population that is less than every US state. Never mind the point where that list considers access to care to be way more important then quality making that list frivolous. Just that every country faces different issues. The system in the US has flaws. I don't agree with replacing it with a system that has different flaws. Instead I want to work and become creative to develop the best system possible because that is what we do in the US. We, right away, deal with many different issues compared to other countries, especially smaller ones, so it is hard to compare us with them. Also, in all, why can't we be different? We need to work and develop a great system. To me the only thing holding us back from doing that is liberals since they seem to never want to work. Cost is an issue in the US, but our quality is amazing and anyone who says otherwise is a fraud. So now that we have great quality we need to find a way to keep cost down but at the same time keep improving our quality. Unlike some people out there I don't want a good system but I want the best and improve on that. Socialize care isn't it. The US system isn't that either but compared to every other system out there it is the best.
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***** I never said the system in the US didn't have problems. I already mentioned that the problem is cost. At the same time our quality is amazing and people don't have to wait or see over 10 doctors before they get critical care if they can get it at all. My big problem is that people want us to switch out to socialize care so basically we are replacing one problem, cost, with another, long wait lines and lower quality of care. I personally want to promote the American way to try to be creative and develop something better. Why do we have to be like everyone else? Why can't we be different? Other countries have their flaws and people do come to the US to use our care so those other systems are not that great either. Instead of copying other countries, who deal with different issues then we do, how about we work to develop a better system. I promote working towards a better system but it always seems the liberals just want to establish socialize care and move on. It doesn't help the image of them of being lazy. Developing a better system would require work but it can be done. Socialize care just requires more taxes and government and it will be another flawed system, probably worst then what we have now.
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