For those of you who still insist that Single Payer or UHC as it's better known, is the way to go with our health care system, please go here and learn what you are truly wishing to subject your fellow Citizens to.

All you one-payer system advocates, just what is your response to stories like Ms. Holmes ? Canada spends over 10% on average of it's GDP on it's health care system(s), yet they do not have the means to pay for adequate service for it's citizens. This same result has occurred in EVERY nation where a single payer system has been tried --- long wait times for diagnosis and/or treatment, or no treatment options being available at all.

I do have a dog in this hunt. I am a three year post op Cardiac patient. I have been diagnosed with Coronary Heart Disease and chronic Congestive Heart Failure complicated by stage one COPD and Diabetes.
I have had a total of two multiple stent and two open heart procedures (a total of four stents, nine bypasses, and one valve repair)done within the last four years. I depend on a C-pak unit to help me breath through the night and insulin to regulate my blood sugars.

Am I in debt from these conditions/treatments?

Hell YES!

BUT
I am alive to worry about these debts. Had I still been residing in my native Netherlands, I most likely wouldn't have survived the wait to see a Cardiologist, much less the wait for a Surgeon.

Single payer works great for standard preventative care, but when the rubber hits the road and you get truly ill, you'd better hope that you're not under such a system, if you are, you either come to the U.S. or you D. I. E. (there I spelled it for you knuckleheads, I can't get any clearer than that.)

We do need reform in our medical delivery system, but government is a great deal a part of the problem and has very little to do with the solution. The ONLY area where government may be of use is if it will enact some true reform in the judicial system and make it so that a case of simple human error doesn't become a way for someone to become, in effect, a lottery grand prize winner.

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