Geoff Miller wrote
Rod Speed writes

So why the need for hospices to be run by charitable
means and rely on charitable contributions from the
general public hospice care hospital care in fact all
heath care should be provided by the government
of the day no matter which party is in power.

Yes, but the US is the only modern first world country that
hasnt actually got a clue about something as basic as that.

Uh, the fact of the matter is that we don't do things that way here,

You do. Its just not universal, you only do it with a
subset of the population, most obviously with Medicare.

Sammy Socialist.

You wouldnt know what a socialist was if it bit you on your lard arse.

And our doing things differently than other countries
do them doesn't _ipso facto_ make our way "wrong."

No one ever said it did. But when the cost of adequate health insurance
is completely unaffordable for so many, particularly those who work for
themselves etc, and when you fools **** an immense amount of money
against the wall in the mindless bureaucratic system you use instead, to
get a worse outcome than most other modern first world countrys do in
average life expectancy etc, even a fool like you should notice the problem.

Ever heard of the Bandwagon Fallacy? As Marge the
Palmolive Liquid lady used to say, "You're soaking in it!"

Even you should be able to do better than that pathetic excuse for mindless bull****.

Obviously not.

Here in America, we have a system based on the use of insurance
policies and HMOs. Don't like some aspect of the way the system
works? Then work within the system to change it. You have the
constitutional right to petition for a redress of grievances,
after all. Is this a great country, or what? ("What," cries
the Greek chorus from behind the curtain...)

It's the responsibility of the federal government to print money,
deliver the mail, provide for the defense of the nation and its
people, and keep bird **** off of the statues. That's all.

Mindless pig ignorant silly stuff. Its the federal responsibility to do
whatever the voters decide it should do. You get to like that or lump it.

Don't like that? Then move to Sweden or
some other European socialist paradise.

So stupid it hasnt even noticed that even Canada has managed to get a clue.

And that the US has that too. The only problem with the stupid US
system is that it isnt universal and only applys to the geriatrics etc.