Reply #13: The USA can't afford healthcare for everyone???? [View All]

[mwooldri]

Hmmm... Where I come from, everyone is covered.

And in % of GDP, we spend about half of what the US does on healthcare. Oh, and if you got money you can get what you want faster. Even having to pay out of pocket for those not covered (like my visiting wife; she needed to see the doctor) wasn't outrageous (much cheaper than a doc's visit without insurance here). (on edit: it wouldn't have cost anything if I took her to the equivalent of the ER but she didn't have a real emergency; she needed urgent care)

Oh and why do our Veterans have to have a separate healthcare system? Why can't it be integrated with everyone else so that they can go to a hospital of their (or their primary care physician's) choosing?

Mark.