[More Cowbell]

One thing about the health care system in this country is that it does work. If there is something medically wrong with you, you go to a hospital for it, that hospital is under a legal obligation to fix you to where you wont die. If someone went into Pikeville or P-burgs hospital and said they didnt have a dime to give them, they still get the health care they need to live. If not, the hospital is liable for the person if they pass away. Granted, they wont get the private room with a full time nurse in their room, but they will get the same care that is needed for them to make a recovery. If surgery is required, they will get the same surgeons that even the richest person in the hospital would get as the surgeons are hired by the hospital. If Bill Gates was flying across Eastern Kentucky and had a gal bladder attack or something like that, he would be operated on by the same surgeons that would operate on someone with a medical card. He would not be allowed to fly in his own surgeon to do the procedure.

The cost of medicine in this country is very high. But that is where the drugs of tomorrow come from. The same thing as the medicine of today came from the money made from drugs 20 years ago. Companies cant spend millions of dollars in research and development to come up with the new equipment and drugs to just give them away. Most drug companies offer assistance to get their services and medication if they just apply for a card threw that company.

If our health care system needed fixed more than the countries with the universal health care, why do citizens from so many other countries come here for health care? Why would Canadians and Brits come here and have to pay for the services that they could get in their countries for free? IMO, something must be right with it for others to want to use it even at their own personal expense.

Great post, BBOF. :Clap:

I couldn't have said it much better myself.