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Obama Touts Public Plan at Health Care Town Hall - Washington Post

11.06.09

Reading several of the comments here, I have to believe that several of these folks who are spouting off on the various trials and tribulations of the more universal healthcare systems around the world are people who have little to no first hand experience of any of these systems! I am an American who is currently living in Amtserdam, Netherlands, with my girlfriend and our 2.5 year old son. We have a gold plated insurance policy that covers everything you can think of - including alternative medicine treatments, counseling, preventive care, complete dental care, complete vision care - and costs us about 360 euor a month. Our son is covered at no cost for all care until he is eighteen, and the city health department takes an active interest in his health on a wholistic level. I came here with several of the same stereotypes tat I see expressed here about waits and lower quality care, but I have not experienced any of hat. In fact, our pediatrician makes house calls, expecially if any of his yourng charges are particularly unwell. When was the last time a US pedicatrician did that as part of his / her normal practice? It is quite sad to think that the US - the world's only remaining superpower - is also one of the only deveoiped nations tat cannot provide basic, affordable health care for its citizen. Perhpas of even greater concern is the fact that several of its suppossedly educated citizens do not see this as a fundamental failing of a their "modern" society, preferring to continue to wallow in their delusion of the individualist paradise that they believe is the ideal for a modern civilized society. What a crock!!!

Source: Washington Post, United States

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