the people who are against socializes health care in the U.S already have health care themselves.45000 people a year die in the U.S for lack of health care.If it were not for Canadian heath care I would be dead a long time ago.
We don't begrudge you your system. The biggest objection we have in the US against a 1 payer system is 1.) being forced into paying for somebody else and 2.) the inevitable rationing and loss of choice.
Our laws and our legal system is different from yours. You have caps on liability claims. Ottawa had sense enough to put forth tort limits on drugs and Health Care providers to contain costs. That will never happen here. You also don't have a flood of of poor and indigent immigrants from Latin America that are being taught how to suck off the system. We do.
I should also mention two other factors that are driving up the cost of Health Care in the US. First, is Medicare, which reimburses only about 60% of the cost of providing a procedure. That forces providers to shift fees over to non-Medicare procedures to make up for that every increasing 40% loss. Lastly, in the US, some 70% of all Health Care costs are channelled into the last 24 months of life. We will do extraordinary measures to extend life 1 day in many cases.
