For All You Right Wingers Out There Who Think We Have Such a GREAT Healthcare System...

About 47 MILLION Americans have no health coverage (neither private NOR government provided. Republicans like to say it's great, but Democrats have a slightly different opinion. Also,

The non-profit Commonwealth Fund said in November Americans spend double what people in other industrialized nations do on health care, but have more trouble seeing doctors, face more medical errors and are more apt to go without treatment.

Those findings came in a poll of 12,000 people in the United States, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

British researchers said in January that the United States rated worst in rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations.

In the Harvard survey, 26 percent of respondents said the United States is better than other countries in providing affordable health care access to everyone, and 21 percent felt the United States was better in controlling health care costs.

Are you noticing what that says? 26% of respondents think US healthcare is better. That's a pretty low number (I think it's even lower than the Idiot's current approval rating!)

So, while there may be shorter wait times to see a specialist, you first have to be able to AFFORD it!!

I know there are some of you out there who are of the opinion not everyone deserves government provided healthcare. I'd like to see you say that if YOU were in that position. And if you're Jewish, this attitude is particularly disgusting.

And to the "anonymous" person who commented on my previous post, did you Conservatives examine THIS issue from all angles and come to the conclusion that it's OK for 47 MILLION people to be without health insurance? We're talking, keep in mind, about roughly one sixth of this country's population. That's just embarrassing, when other industrialized countries provide FOR their citizens.