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So keep your private health insurance. That's not going away.

We can put a man on the moon in spite of our history of public sector incompetence and mismanagement. European and British space programs are run far better than anything NASA touches.

The Mars Climate Orbiter was a huge loss for this country. It burned up as it approached Mars. It turns out half the engineers working on the navigation numbers were using english units and the other half were using metric units.

NASA forgot to test to landing system of the mars polar lander, so as it was landing, a routine vibration tricked the computers into thinking the craft had already landed. Computers sent a signal to the engines to shut down and the MPL crashed on the surface of Mars, getting completely destroyed.

NASA's Genesis capsule was another really expensive clusterfvck. It collected solar particles and had a parachute so a helicopter could intercept it mid-air and not disturb the particles. The chute never opened though and the Genesis capsule crashed into the ground and was completely destroyed. Why? The Genesis capsule's deceleration sensors were somehow installed backwards!

The Hubble Telescope was only supposed to cost $400 million to construct, but when it was finally completed, it cost over $2.5 billion. Could you imagine a private company missing their targets like that? How long do you think it would stay in business? When the first pictures of the telescope came back, they were a fuzzy mess because of an incorrectly ground mirror. By the time we fixed the problem, costs had ballooned up to 6 billion for this project.

I could go on and on, but you get the point. I think Americans in particular don't know how to nationalize anything and run it correctly. We are REALLY good at business and I wish we were even half as good at government as we were at business. McDonald's is arguably the best run major international company in the world. If Obamacare could be run even 1/2 as well as McDonald's, I'd be the first to sign up for it. It's one thing if they screw up social security, quite another to screw up something as important as healthcare.

Why did you decide to focus on a rhetorical statement I made for effect instead of addressing the actual point of my post that was your healthcare system is amongst the worse in the western world for preventable deaths and is the number one cause of bankruptcy in America?

Approval ratings don't say anything about the quality of a service. Of course a lot of people are going to say they're satisfied with their healthcare plan when most of them will never have to use it for anything beyond routine check-ups and occasionally getting a prescription. But what about the hundreds of thousands of people who file for bankruptcy every year in the wake of a giant medical bill? Three quarters of these people, by the way, were insured. Or how about the 20,000 people who die each year from lack of access to healthcare? Who cares if a majority of people claim to be 'satisfied' with a system when every year hundreds of thousands of lives are ruined or ended because that same system ****** them over? Virtually every industrialised nation on Earth has managed to set up some kind of national healthcare system but America can't because apparently only America has incompetent politicians.

The guardian is filled with just as many stories of people who got screwed over by your system. No system is perfect, tbh. I think our system is probably as good and as bad as the systems in other countries.

Tbh the healthcare systems in Switzland and the Scandanavian countries (particularly Sweden) are as close to perfect as you can get. Where's the harm in trying to emulate them?

The Switzerland system is mostly private.

The "complementary" insurance may be, but the compulsory coverage is not.

Yes, they have compulsary insurance but it is for most people fairly private.

Source?

Tbh the healthcare systems in Switzland and the Scandanavian countries (particularly Sweden) are as close to perfect as you can get. Where's the harm in trying to emulate them?

My source is personal experience. I used to live in Switzerland.

Your opinion is not exactly reputable. I don't mean to insult you or start a pissy fit, but opinions mean squat in a reasoned discussion.

It's not a subjective thing. I have seen how the system in Switzerlas is like first hand. You can not believe me if you want, I don't care.

That's useless. If what you say is true, you should be able to find it somewhere on the Internet. And before you say that if I care so much I should find it, it's not my job to prove your argument.

The Switzerland system is mostly private.