How successful has private industry been on health care?

1. Taiwan: where
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   Husband-and-wife health policy experts based at Princeton University, Reinhardt and Cheng discuss the problems with American health care and compare it to systems in other countries, including Cheng's native Taiwan.

2. Japan: where
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   Ikegami is widely regarded as the top health economist in Japan, which has some of the best health statistics in the world while spending less than most other developed nations.

3. Germany: where
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   A health expert and politician, Lauterbach explains the German system of social insurance and discusses what the U.S. could learn from it.

4. Great Britain: where
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   Hawkes is health editor for The Times of London and a longtime observer of Britain's National Health Service (NHS), a government-run service that covers everyone's health care and is paid for out of tax revenue.

5. Switzerland: where
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   The president of Switzerland, Couchepin oversees the implementation of the 1994 law that requires all Swiss citizens to buy health insurance -- with the state paying for the poor.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...ld/interviews/

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I love it! You dont like the results form your last poll so you post another with the same subject.?Weve allready established that most believe that private healthcare is better than public!

http://www.politicalforum.com/opinio...insurance.html

two different questions and you still don't get IT yet, do you?

lol

The results do not matter you boob.

gawd, if I thought you weren't really playing he fool I'd send your resume to a pretty good agent I know---in Hollywood.

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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know them by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against them.
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---"Thoughts On Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting."

This poll is misleading and fallicitious.

Private health care in the US is successful, but the public healthcare system is broken, while still a part of the US healthcare system.

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-- Ludwig von Mises

Toby, you have passed up numerous chances to educate yourself, but like a creationist you'd rather live in the dark ages than admit your preconceptions reveal you're ignorance.

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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know them by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against them.
-Jonathan Swift

---"Thoughts On Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting."

you too mistake things. how funny is that?

"Is the US health care system broken?"

Private health care insurance is successful---that is why I voted no. surprise!

The health care system as a whole is not broken, but it is in bad need of repair in certain areas if we as a nation are going to take care of each other. What else is medical care supposed to do besides earn a profit?

Why do we fund so much of the system with tax dollars and why do we pay companies (in the form of tax breaks and subsidies) who pay insurance for employees and why do we mandate others play their part?

Why do tax payers pay the health care system for delivery or research---if it is concerned with profit the industry should stand on it's own.

And anyone denies that tax payers play a huge part in propping up the medical industry in the USA denies reality.

How many people here pay their medical insurance out of pocket? How many pay the full bill themselves, out of pocket?

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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know them by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against them.
-Jonathan Swift

---"Thoughts On Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting."

Personal attacks in the absence of an intellegent conversation? Some how I thought you would result to this.

What does he mean by "US Healthcare system"?

I'm not sure I get the question. There have been some great scientific advancement and improvements that are positive regarding medical care. But do all Americans have access to that care? I would bet most people here have health insurance, but the cost keeps going up and up both for employers and employees and for someone who is self-insured. Some health management organizations make decisions on health care decisions that have to do more with cost than patient care. For people without health insurance? Forget them.

So would it make more sense to admit that certain aspects are functioning well than a black and white working or not working question?

stop whining. you're embarrassing us all

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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know them by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against them.
-Jonathan Swift

---"Thoughts On Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting."