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Originally Posted by boneprone
Have you ever met a British person with good teeth?
Yeah, there ya go. Socialized denistry at its finest.
Here in the US only the homeless have jacked up teeth as poor as the Brits.
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Dentistry is not free in the UK and the thing of Brits having bad teeth is a myth.
At least I've never heard of anyone dying from a tooth ache in the UK unlike the US.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...022702116.html
If you have the money you'll probably get better care in the US than anywhere else in the world, I don't think anyone is arguing about that. It's the poor people that have to suffer, even middle class people that get financially ruined because of astronomical health bills.
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medical bills are overwhelmingly the most common reason for personal bankruptcy in the United States
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_..._United_States
Public health care is a huge burden on any country, but even if the US doesn't provide their citizens with this basic human right they still spend a huge portion of the GDP on it...
A country that is supposed to be the biggest superpower in the world should be able to take care of the people without any problems.
In Spain every employer has to pay social security for their employees, about 300$ a month, this goes into health care and if you become unemployed you get 3 month full pay for each year you've been working.
Spain is currently one of the most dynamic economies in the world, recently got into 8th place over all (and should therefor be in the G8
), so social medicine definitely hasn't hurt.