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Originally Posted by BetterRed
@ Hitch, my comments were specifically about Australia, and its health care system, not about the US or its health care system. I have no insights to offer on what will happen to the US health care system, so much has changed since I lived there, which was more years ago than I care to admit  |
Yes, but the treatment of different, behavior-based illnesses is, as near as I can tell (granted, I'm making inferences from Aussie news, magazines and even TV shows), the same. Yes, you have that European "all before one" kind of mindset.
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Australians are at heart Benthamite utilitarians - the greater good for the greatest number is intuitively understood by a wide cross section. We tend to roll our eyes and sigh when Yanks and Poms trot out their Libertarian and/or Thatcherite mantras.
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Well, gosh, it's really nice of y'all to tolerate us poor deranged illiterates.
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You've probably know semi-automatic weapons are banned here. John Howard did that, he is a true-blue conservative, G.W. Bush referred to him as a 'man of steel' - I guess no one told George that that was the meaning of 'Stalin' 
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That's because, like much of Europe and Canada, you actually believe that government is your friend, and there to help you. Most folks in the US don't see government that way. We inherently distrust it. Thus, we're not willing to give up the last line of defense.
HOWEVER, this now ranges dangerously close to "politics," so we should probably drop it.
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Incidentally I based my estimate of the costs of the pacemaker replacement, on this and similar pages.
BR
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Ah. Well, that explains it.
Hitch