re: WSJ: The U.K.’s Healthcare System Is in Crisis; 500 die every week due to treatment delays

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You’re telling me that the government running something is incompetent?

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Just like our military. Ask people in the military and vets. The money that is wasted in the service would shock people. We could easily cut the defense budget by 5% and still be as safe and have the best military in the world if the military would actually sometimes make common sense decisions about spending.

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Klark Kent

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Good old Klark missing the boat as usual.

not even clever.

you think your comments and opinions in this thread have been impactful or thought provoking?

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not even clever.

you think your comments and opinions in this thread have been impactful or thought provoking

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You think you're accomplishing anything by posting a dog getting his head pat? Dissenting opinions turn you into a petulant child seeking joy only for himself. It's kinda sad Klark

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People need to start taking responsibility for their own actions. I work a "low wage, long hours" job and still find time to exercise and eat relatively healthy food. As a result...I am not a statistic. Because I am not a statistic, I can go an entire year or more without needing to go to the doctor to get healthcare treatment.

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I think people need to be properly educated on what healthy living looks like. I know plenty of people that think a Gatorade with 34 grams of sugar, is a healthy alternative to soda.

People have obscene caloric surpluses and macronutrient imbalances in their diets and live sedentary lifestyles in America and I think ignorance is often just as much to blame as laziness.

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Private healthcare will always be too expensive for middle and lower class

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No, it won't. If we quit dumping trillions of dollars into the medical industry via Medicare/Medicaid/Obamacare/Prescription Drug Benefit/etc you'd be amazed how affordable health care would be. It's almost like leftists and Above the Fray! moderates on here don't have the slightest clue about how basic economics work. Those programs haven't done a damned thing to make health care more accessible and affordable. All it has done is made a lot of doctors very wealthy.

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I am expert enough to realize there will be more people getting "free healthcare" while I pay the bill through higher taxes.

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They are entitled to the fruits of your labor, baw.

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Good luck with that once you turn 70 and no insurer wants to insure you without charging you $100,000 a year. No returning soldier with chronic care needs can get coverage. And the government subsidies hiding behind your employer plan go away and you see your rates jump through the roof.

Maybe we can just do like the cult in midsommar and start throwing all the old people off a cliff at 65?

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I love stuff like this. Like there is no other solution to the problem but a HUGE gov't intervention. So the answer is to ruin everyone's healthcare?

A free functioning market resolves all problems. How specifically does it address elder care? I don't know, but feel comfortable that the market would figure it out. Why? Because consumers would demand it.

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It has more to do with overweight, drug addicted, smoking, diabetic, opiod addicted, inner city gun violence etc.

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Where I live, it provides villagers a weekly trip to Juneau complete with hotel and transportation. The expense has to be ungodly.

They certainly aren't any thinner and healthier.

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A free functioning market resolves all problems. How specifically does it address elder care? I don't know, but feel comfortable that the market would figure it out. Why? Because consumers would demand it.

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You understand the reason we have the VA, Social Security, and Medicare is specifically because the "market" failed to provide an acceptable solution and people got increasingly pissed off, right?