US ambassador killed over a film

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The US spends FAR more per capita on health care, and somehow cannot manage to provide even basic free health care for everyone.


Which system is more "unsustainable"?

If you were paying for it, I may have opted for the expensive route (with all the risks of complications) with perhaps a worse outcome.

That's not how it works with socialized health care. I've tried to explain it to you in the past, and I'll try yet again. I cannot just walk into my doctor's office and demand a MRI, open heart surgery, and a kidney transplant on the side just because it's "free" and paid for by the government. Doctors are the final arbiters on what health care I receive - not for-profit insurance bureaucrats, and certainly not the government.

Actual doctors decide what medical treatment I require, and I'm really happy with that system.

I understand that you are a pure libertarian that wants everyone to pay their own way, but I'm pretty content in allowing some of my tax dollars go towards providing basic health care to the poorest in my nation that would not otherwise be able to afford such basic care. In fact, I think that's pretty Christian of me.