Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post

In countries with socialized healthcare, everyone raves about it and talks about how much America's healthcare system sucks, which it does. No one complains about wait times or quality of care because it's a non issue. Everyone gets the same quality of care, rich or poor. "Oh I dont wanna pay for someone else's grandmas healthcare because wah wah wah". Get over yourself or move to another country. I would gladly pay extra taxes so that myself and all my friends and family get healthcare.
Those other "SOCIALIZED COUNTRIES" dont have:
A) the population we have
B) the illegal immigration problem we have
C) some of those countries are in dire straits, financially.

You realize the "extra in taxes" you will have to pay is 3-5 TIMES THE DEFENSE BUDGET right? Right now the defense budget is 500 Billion dollars. Healthcare costs in 2009 were approaching 2 TRILLION DOLLARS. Figure out how much of your tax dollars go to Defense, and triple it, thats what you would have to pay to break even on healthcare costs.