that makes sense

Drivn,

It's actually not an allergy. It's called Celiac Disease. It's an autoimmune disorder of the intestines. They have to eat gluten free foods. One of the ways to test for it is with a biopsy during a colonoscopy.

There are a couple of more pointsI can add to this, it is up to you to believe newspapers or believe me who lived 15years under social healthcare.

1. Your tax will increase. While social medicare is great, you will pay a lot more taxes, just like all countries where social medicare is effect.

Example, Hungary, 18% up to about 6000 dollars a month salary ( about 90% of the people) and above 6000 it's 36% tax you pay for the government.
(source: http://www.worldwide-tax.com/hungary/hungary_tax.asp )
Think about it...the doctors in Europe are actually still underpaid, regardless of the enourmous tax, now imagine the doctors in USA, they cost 3-4 times more right now, I'm not even gonna mention dentists.


2. Corruption running high, since there aren't really enough doctors if you think about it...don't even think about going to a doctor to get first class treatment without bringing "tips", which could be crazy amounts. The doctors will take the tips, trust me, and they will get addicted for tips, since socializing medicare will not pay as much for the doctors as used to be.

3. You will still be required to pay crazy money for any complicated surgery, such as heart or brain surgery or similar. No matter , whether social healthcare or not, these surgeries are done by specialists who will simply refuse to do a procedure for pocket change. If they don't get paid, they simply wont operate and perhaps leave to somewhere else where they pay them more (for example: another country).

4. Despite the socialized health care, go check either the FBI country fact sheets or other statistical data, showing that people are in poor(er) health than in USA, regardless of free health care.


5. Government controlled Hospitals and regulations. There are massive amount of hospitals closed, due to the recession and the governments in Europe had the brilliant idea to close down many health care centers and hospitals to save money. Other hospitals are running on a skeleton crew, due to cutbacks, some others don't have the amount and the necessary equipment, I'm not even gonna mention of not having enough ambulance vehicles and personnel. I don't want to mention the consequences, but imagine driving 4 hours to get to a hospital. There are a couple of incidents of people life-and-death situation were lifted by helicopters (car accident) and didn't make it, simply because a functioning hospital was too far.
I'm not saying this would happen in the USA, but it is going on currently in Europe and looking at the economic forecast, it is rather troubling and kinda scares me a bit.


Again, I'm not trying to say only negative things..since I'm saying, it's easy to walk in there to a care center and get a treatment and not think about how much it's gonna cost you, but watch your paycheck get chopped down even more and now the troubling economy doesn't make it sound so refreshing.

For people like me, whose cost is nearly 800 dollars per month for health care anyway, it may be a savings, because that would be more than covered with the 'change' coming back to me...

I do stand corrected...