Comments by "bohemianwriter1" (@bohemianwriter1) on "Debate With A "Libertarian Anarchist"" video.

  1. +kathy kelly Nope. USA is at #37 in overall healthcare. You lag behind ALL industrialized nations, and are on the level of 3rd world countries like Panama and Cuba. Your overall costs are also much higher than the rest. Why? Because Bush jr. gave the pharmaceutical industry dictatorial rights to dictate prices without negotiation on bulk prices with Medicare and Medicaid. That means that your PRIVATE industry can jack up prices as they want, and government must pay whatever they demand. And it was government during Bush who made this. Increasing the national debt at the expense of the tax payer.
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  2. +kathy kelly Perhaps. I lived in Belfast 10 years ago, and got prescriptions for 6.49. Lived there 2004-2007. It was the same price in 2010 in England. Since Cameron took over, things may have changed. But how much, I wouldn't know. I have lived in Ireland on and off since and not gone back to England. Ireland has a nightmarish HC system. It resembles the American system where everything is privatized, And if you need govt. coverage, it apparently takes months to get an application through. In UK, everythigin igoes automatically as soon as you have a monthly pay. Then you get deducted every month, and if you need to go to the doctor, you don't pay your arm to give the doctor a handshake. You show him your NHS number, he registers, you, and then asks you to turn your head an cough. No money exchanges hands. An invention from the conservative icon Winston Churchill. It was one of his whims from his younger days as a liberal democrat and he still had a heart. Ireland is a whole new beast. That's perhaps why so many American companies chose Ireland over _UK as bases for their European operations for their IT industry. Less rights for the worker, and more tax breaks for the corporation. Not that it helped much. Ireland still struggles. People are pissed off. So do you have any numbers on how much longer an American live than a Scandinavian, Irishman, Englishman, or a Japanes for that matter?ยจ 45 000 people died of lack of access to HC in USA before Obamacare. Now, millions more are covered. But not enough. It's about being COVERED! http://www.forbes.com/sites/danmunro/2014/06/16/u-s-healthcare-ranked-dead-last-compared-to-10-other-countries/ There are five things USA is #1 in these days: Number of gun deaths Number of incarcerated Number of guns Size of the military budget Number of lunatics
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  3. +kathy kelly Subidized prescription never costs more than 6.40 pounds in UK. Unless they have "jacked up the prices" to 7 pounds since Cameron took over. We know how conservatives always aim to screw over normal people on behalf of their Downton Abbey heirs.
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