Why is American health care so bad?
The entire system is motivated by profit, that's why. The US is so wealthy that it could very well have the best system in the world, but instead it doesn't, instead it has the absolute worst in the developed world, ranked in between Costa Rica and Cuba. 45,000 Americans die each year from lack of healthcare. You know how many die in Canada, Germany, France, Britain, Japan, etc. from lack of healthcare? Zero.
Is Australia a capitalist country?
yes
Which Country has the best Health Care System?
Great Britain and Canada both provide universal single payer systems. Everyone has care that they pay for through taxes. There are NO uninsured patients. And cost is not really an issue. These systems also have downsides, disease survival rates, waiting times, shortages of medicine and medical technology, and quality of care and doctors all are major problems in both of these systems. In France, Germany, and many other developed nations they have universal multipayer health care. Basically these systems have a large portion of Health Care costs covered by the government, they also have government insurance available to everyone, while also having a small private insurance market. These countries also have ups and downs. Quality and disease survival rates are not as big of issues, but they are still issues. Shortages also plague these systems Finally, the US (my country) has a private Health Care system, with a good amount of government regulation and a robust safety net (which has gotten bigger due to the recent passage of "Obamacare". The US system undoubtedly has the best doctors, highest quality, shortest waiting times, best disease survival rates, most innovative medicine companies, and the best availability of medical technology. However, our system is VERY expensive. We have 46 million uninsured. We also have people who struggle to pay for medical care becuase they get dropped... So, which one is best?
Is Canada a socialist country?
There are some big differences between social democracy and socialism, and they are often mixed up.Socialism: The state supervises all of the economy while seeking to make living standards good for all citizens. In socialism there is no such thing as private property; everything is owned collectively, so people can have a say in their workplace. Workers often have it fairely well with good working hours and wages.Social Democracy: A mix of socialism and capitalism. Private property exists and people can make a living out of it, at the expence of higher tax rates. This in order to redistrubute wealth to the average citizen. So things like healthcare appear. Under social democracy regulations are also often put in to make the workplaces for workers safer.So where can we put Canada in this? Well Canada has social welfare and private property, so therefore it is a social democracy.A rule of thumb when deciding whether a country is socialist or not is to see their stance at private property.
Which country has the best healthcare system in the world, and why don’t countries with flawed systems, like the UK and the USA, simply copy that country?
Every neighborhood and housing complex in Cuba has a doctor assigned who lives there and administers care, medicines, immunizations, and initial diagnosis. Serious or complicated cases are transferred to hospitals.It is easy access to medical service at the neighborhood level that makes Cuban health care the best in the world for ordinary people.Dr. Che Guevara, a pediatrician and allergy specialist, administered the Cuban banking system after he recovered from health trauma caused by months of intensive jungle combat. He was an asthmatic. He diverted funds to build a major hospital complex, which paved the way for the system Cuba has to this day.Cuba trains doctors and exports health care to countries around the world. Revenues prevented economic collapse during the worst days of the USA-led embargo when the United States was poisoning Cuban food exports and setting fires to ships that dared trade with the island nation.The United States passed laws a few years ago to automatically admit and grant citizenship to any Cuban doctor who could make it to the entrance of one of our embassies anywhere in the world. It hoped to gut the Cuban health care system by sucking up Cuban doctors into its complex web of embassy vacuum cleaners, which blanket the world.The program has been a failure. Cuban doctors don't practice medicine to make money. They practice to bring relief to suffering people around the world who are too poor to buy an inhaler, should they need one. It's a different way of thinking and living, which wealthy Americans will crush someday when the opportunity presents itself.HEY, GUEVARA…OBAMACARE AND THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES