I'm going to try to explain the issue with health care, nicely, and with a little more detail on the issue.
That is correct, Europe puts patients on a waiting
list for free health care. Patients with minor injuries or
heath issues can be taken care of quickly, however, something like cancer treatment gets the waiting list.
Cancer patients are more likely to suffer and die before they get treatment there, so they come over here. Now,
the US charges an awful lot, but you get immediate treatment. Why is the treatment so expensive? Well, for one
we allow our country to sue the medical system for millions, thanks to our greedy lawyers. In Europe, if they make a mistake, oh well, it was free. But here, our medical system is constantly getting sued for millions and millions of dollars, for what? To
bring someone back from the dead? The more they make mistakes, the more we sue, the more money they lose, the more money it costs. Now, Hillary would like to mandate health care. This is a
very difficult thing to try to do because no matter how cheap we make the lowest form of health care, what that person pays for their low cost insurance still gets taxed so much that it negates the low cost. :Flower: Unless we make health care free, it will never be low cost so long as it is immediate. McCain offers not to tax what you pay in bills, which saves a few thousand dollars on each 5 or 10 thousand dollar bill. And currently, if you are without heath care, and you go to the hospital, you can fill out some papers and the state of New Jersey
will take care of at least 50% of the bill, and most of the rest the hospital doesn't charge the uninsured for under their special funding programs, which cuts the bill down to almost nothing. It's a lot cheaper for someone without health insurance to pay a 15,000 dollar bill having it cut down to 2,000 than to pay for yearly health insurance that would be taxed anyway.