Reply #13: Remember when the media was doing all those stories on "medical tourism"

[Proud Liberal Dem]

Why would such a thing even exist, let alone be newsworthy, if there weren't a fairly significant number or people in our country who needed access to affordable health care? :shrug:
Are there a lot of people from other countries coming HERE for health care? If government-run health systems were really as bad as the wingnuts complain that they are, you'd think we'd be seeing such systems being replaced with systems like ours worldwide. The fact that nearly every industrialized country has some kind of government-run health care system and that there does not appear to be an impetus in any of those countries AFAIK to change to a private-run system like ours in other countries seems to be completely lost on them. :banghead: No system created by man is ever going to be 100% perfect but it would seem that, unlike here, problems with the health care system in other countries are more the exception rather than the rule.

It would be very interesting to find out how other countries finally managed to successfully adopt and maintain a government-run health care system. It might provide some interesting ideas on how to overcome the apparent inability and/or unwillingness of many of our so-called leaders to allow such a system to come into being here (on a widespread basis, anyhow)