England & Canada question

[Medusa]

My concern is that for every link that we read for health ins. reform, we can read a link that's against it. For every person that says socialized medicine is good, there's another person who says it isn't. How are we supposed to decide for ourselves? Plus, if the bill is 1000+ pages that hasn't even been read or understood, how could they possibly implement it? My biggest gut feeling tells me that if they're trying to rush it through, it's probably w/good reason and not in our favor.

[Killearn Kitties]

My concern is that for every link that we read for health ins. reform, we can read a link that's against it. For every person that says socialized medicine is good, there's another person who says it isn't. How are we supposed to decide for ourselves?

I feel that this can be said about every political issue on the planet. There are a lot of vested interests and they all have their own agenda.

[Medusa]

I feel that this can be said about every political issue on the planet. There are a lot of vested interests and they all have their own agenda.

I don't disagree except for what I said in the rest of my post.

[Randi]

What KK and Medusa's friend described, is pretty much how it works in Denmark too. There can be short waiting lists for things that are not life threatening, like a hip operation. If the patient requires immediate attention, he/she will be referred to a private hospital and NHS will pay the bill.

Like in UK, everybody here is entitled to healthcare through the NHS (National Health Service) funded through taxation. The individual does not pay for operations, treatment, hospital clinic, or doctor’s appointments. However, we do pay for dentist treatment.

If someone need a lot of prescription medicine, they pay the full amount for it the first time, and after that, the amount is deducted with a certain percentage for the following purchases for one year, so that you pay less and less. It starts all over again after a year.

[Laura's Babies]

That is VERY informative. And again leads me to ask...why aren't these facts a part of the discussion?

At first we panic... that nasty ole word "CHANGE".. I paniced too, then I wanted to dig deeper than what information is being passed around BY the paniced. Like I said before, what I have read of the bill is so vague that people interpret it different.

The hurried way they are trying to pass it is what is panicing everybody. It needs to be fully explained in every day terms and just give us time to do some investigating to satisfy ourselves that it is not/or really is, something to be afraid of. WHAT IS THE RUSH? We have done it our way this long, give us time to read it, investigate it and them have someone to explain it, there is no need to hurry and shove it down anyones throat..

What I want to see is a debate on TV like the presidential debates, THAT is what I think they need to do to satisfy people and answer questions that people have.... FOR ALL to see! If there is nothing to hide... why not?