Living in Canada, I can make some observations on our system.
It works, just not terribly well. Mostly, this is because little apparent effort is being made to address the issues in any meaningful fashion.
Sometimes it seems like the political parties purposefully leave the health care issues unsolved so that if they lose an election it will be too much work for another party to accomplish before they have a chance to blame it on the new party, so that they can be voted back in to continue doing nothing about the problem.
The problems are not insurmountable, we're just lazy. Assuming that ours is the necessary model to emulate is silly. Europe is where you want to be looking.
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on 2009-09-02 02:50 am (UTC)It works, just not terribly well. Mostly, this is because little apparent effort is being made to address the issues in any meaningful fashion.
Sometimes it seems like the political parties purposefully leave the health care issues unsolved so that if they lose an election it will be too much work for another party to accomplish before they have a chance to blame it on the new party, so that they can be voted back in to continue doing nothing about the problem.
The problems are not insurmountable, we're just lazy. Assuming that ours is the necessary model to emulate is silly. Europe is where you want to be looking.