'Socialized' or not, Britain's health care system is superior (an opinion)

I admire the way Conservatives/Republicans can toss out a label to scare their constituency and completely stifle the desire to gather facts. In the area of health care, call Universal Health Care “Obama-Care" or say it is “Socialism" and all thinking stops (assuming it ever started).
‘Socialized’ or not, Britain’s health care system is superior]
As a friend of mine once said, “I don’t have sufficient paranoia to vote Republican." :roll:

I lived in Spain for 7 years and I would have to say that their socialized universal healthcare system is excellent. I had to go through treatment for a major illness and got top notch care in a timely and professional manner. Also, living Spain required me to redefine terms like democracy, republic, socialism, anarchy, secularism, capitalism, economy, liberal and conservative. In Spain, if you want to politicize an issue in a negative perspective, you simply connect it to capitalism and everyone will hate it. It very similar to the way we Americans react to socialism.
I have come to believe every government needs a mix of these ideologies or approaches to management in the right places at the right times to really work, ethically and efficiently. Any government that try’s to apply one them for every situation is doomed. When I hear pundits claim that the markets will naturally correct every problem our county has, I want to scream.

I’m constantly amazed not only at conservatives’ aversion to facts, but also at their predilection for hypocrisy. Obamacare is evil until one of their own needs health insurance, then they are quick to buy into the system. I’ve seen it happen.

I have come to believe every government needs a mix of these ideologies or approaches to management in the right places at the right times to really work, ethically and efficiently. Any government that try’s to apply one them for every situation is doomed. When I hear pundits claim that the markets will naturally correct every problem our county has, I want to scream.
Absolutely true and we proved it here, but the neocon wingnuts who now control the Republican Party don't want this known. A mixed economy kept our economic heads above water until the War ended the Great Depression. We needed a touch of socialism to kick start the economy hence Roosevelt's New Deal. Of course we wouldn't want the students knowing this so let's cut off the free flow of historical info and only teach the "good things" about America. We need a mixed economy now more than ever and vilifying the solution to our woes won't help, neither will destroying unions, eliminating civil rights legislation, monopolizing businesses, and giving the wealthy free reign. The Reps. Don't want to return to the 50's they want to takes us back to the late 19th Century when the "robber Barons" ruled. And that had dire consequences for everybody. Cap't Jack
I lived in Spain for 7 years and I would have to say that their socialized universal healthcare system is excellent. I had to go through treatment for a major illness and got top notch care in a timely and professional manner. Also, living Spain required me to redefine terms like democracy, republic, socialism, anarchy, secularism, capitalism, economy, liberal and conservative. In Spain, if you want to politicize an issue in a negative perspective, you simply connect it to capitalism and everyone will hate it. It very similar to the way we Americans react to socialism. I have come to believe every government needs a mix of these ideologies or approaches to management in the right places at the right times to really work, ethically and efficiently. Any government that try's to apply one them for every situation is doomed. When I hear pundits claim that the markets will naturally correct every problem our county has, I want to scream.
And you should. The market myth is a cruel one but one that idiots love to trot out at every opportunity. Lois

Ironically, the Republicans have some true dilemmas to deal with. They push for a weaker Federal Government, and now they control the House and the Senate. They have “the Power" and yet their platform is to weaken that power.
They want to dismantle Universal Health Care (aka “Obama Care"). Do they take insurance away from all the people who now have it? Do they replace it with something else? If so, with what? They’ve never had a plan of their own besides letting big insurance companies drive the market (which proved to be a dismal failure) and tell them what to do.