I just want to clear a few things up here--
Folks across the pond, you guys still pay for your healthcare -- It's on your tax forms >_>
Regardless of what healthcare plan you have, you pay for it in the end. Doctors don't work for free, so it's either you pay for it personally or you pay for it through your government. The difference is in the end result. When the government pays for healthcare, there is a waiting list. When you directly pay for healthcare, it's come in, get your shit, and get out.
The line you have to straddle is, do I want to be sitting in line while the half-a-dozen people that can't afford Healthcare because A) They're too lazy to work, B) They can't work, or C) They just simply don't make enough to afford it are having themselves and/or relatives checked because they got there first while you sit there nursing whatever major injury you may have at the moment -- A gunshot wound, a broken leg, etc. -- Until a doctor is available, or would you rather be rushed directly to the emergency room because, tah-dah, you can afford Healthcare.
The issue here is, the majority of the people getting the free healthcare won't be paying for it because our middle class and upper classes already could afford the healthcare. And they're the ones who will have their taxes increased to support our massive lower-class population. Government-run healthcare works in England because your population is smaller than ours and more of your people are in the working class than in the lower or upper class. Whereas we have an unbalanced number of people in the lower class and upper class as opposed to the middle class.
That and the term 'middle class' is being redefined by the bigwigs in Washington. My family used to be middle class, but now I'm hearing we're upper class because we make x amount of money per year. What they don't take into account is there are eight of us, five dogs, two cats, and only four sources of income between us one of them being Social Security checks that come once a month... >_>
But we're 'upper class' so expect to not see me anymore if our taxes get raised too high and we get bankrupt.
) paying a lot less, or nothing, when actually they're using the services more.
