tmttactical
A True Doomsday Prepper
I like being a paranoid prepper, it motivates me.
nearest emergency room to me is 25-30 miles away, about 1 hours travel in a car on our roads, in an emergency they call out the air ambulance(helicopter).23% of deaths this year in the U.S. will be due to heart attacks and strokes. I'm a lot more paranoid about that than I am any of the prepper scenarios. The nearest emergency room is four minutes away, and a world class hospital is about nine minutes away. Great healthcare is more likely to save my life and my wife's life than a stockpile of food. But yes, a person can have it both ways with some careful planning. Rice and beans, are cheap.
Here you need to prep to pay for that air ambulance as it can be 50,000 dollars.....nearest emergency room to me is 25-30 miles away, about 1 hours travel in a car on our roads, in an emergency they call out the air ambulance(helicopter).
ours is a charity, it runs on donations and any funding it can get.
all UK health needs are free at the point of need. paid for by general taxation.
PARANOID: the word found in the non-preppers vocabulary used to describe the sense he himself has and feels when any other living being describes his preparations for a possible event which would end up in a situation in which said non-prepper would be left to fend for himself in the aftermath of his own stupidity...GPwhats paranoid about being prepared??
it means we don't have to pay to visit the ER or our family doctor. we don't get a bill if we have to stay in hospital. even prescriptions are free for some groups like children and over 60s.
I agree with you in principle, but I've always had a nagging question (and I'm most assuredly not a socialist).Maybe the person receiving the medical services did not reach into their pocket to pay for the service but millions of tax payers prepaid for those services, so they are not free. Just like our welfare is not free, the American tax payer is paying. There is no "Free Lunch", somebody is paying or has prepaid for that Free Lunch" service. Every Medical system across the world is paid by somebody there are NO FREE MEDICAL systems.
The quote is right. The idea is right. The hope it will work is right. The people supporting the idea are right. Many ideas are "right". Just getting the correct balance of where the money comes from, who decides where it goes and who actually gets to use the services is the hard part. Lots of people have enough money to take care of themselves and their medicals, but if they could use their money for a new boat, a big vacation or such and get free meds, then the system would just be overloaded, misused and bankrupted by those who do not even need it. And those who really need it, will not get helped. Why does a millionare need a $800 check from Social Security?? AND why are there still 85,000 homeless veterans in America?? Because the money is not being spread right!I've heard from many sources that one dollar out of every four dollars spent by the government is waste
I agree with you in principle, but I've always had a nagging question (and I'm most assuredly not a socialist).
If everyone had access to healthcare (and I'm talking about theory, which is light years away from how things work in the real world), does that mean that it save money for everyone over time because--with proper health maintenence--there would be less people relying on the emergency room, and things would be caught earlier when medical conditions are easier (and cheaper) to treat?
So....a net savings of money for everyone?
In practice, I accept that there will be human ineptness, crookedness, and government incompetence attached to socialized medicine (I've heard from many sources that one dollar out of every four dollars spent by the government is waste), so I imagine that it would never work really well.....or, at least, not any better than what we already have.
Still.....if it was done right, would it be cheaper than what we have now?
Think about this in a different light Kevin. If everyone gets better healthcare, then they will live longer on average, right? And the longer they live, the longer they collect benefits past retirement, when they are not longer productive.If everyone had access to healthcare (and I'm talking about theory, which is light years away from how things work in the real world), does that mean that it save money for everyone over time because--with proper health maintenence--there would be less people relying on the emergency room, and things would be caught earlier when medical conditions are easier (and cheaper) to treat?
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