A genuine question - Affordable Health ACT
Why are so many Americans opposed to the Affordable Health Act?The most obvious thing that sets countries like UK, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Australia apart from the USA in terms of quality of life and equity is the public health system. Free healthcare funded in our case largely by a direct income tax impost. I think it is why the Gini index of all those countries is lower than the US, and why the US is almost the same as China. Ignoring the 'greatness' of USA, and the guns, it simply makes them better places to live.
Why is a country proclaiming itself as the defender of democracy and human rights so opposed to something like this social welfare? Something so seemingly caring and fair.
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So easy to spread lies in the US as most Americans are incredibly gullible.
The British were the forerunners in industrial ergonomic research. It's not just about 'being nice' to employees, it's about recognising that optimum conditions leads to optimum output and that optimum conditions don't involve suffering. It's about utilising resources efficiently.
So it is with healthcare, education, living wages and welfare in general. It's foolish to think that part of a population is expendable when they are a resource who could be making a contribution.
If people are too sick, too poor and too ill-educated to even be consumers of any value, it filters upwards and impacts upon the economy as a whole.
The saying "a good workman looks after his tools" applies to the workforce and the environment.
As I understand it, Germany has taken on board the concept of providing positive conditions in the workplace with a view to increasing production, as well as having one of the oldest state healthcare systems in Europe. Germany has a lower Gini rating than the UK and a lot lower than the US.
We are incomparable on so many socio-economic levels.Be accountable for creating your own demise.
Casting dispersions much?
The fact that public healthcare can optimise productivity is a bonus. It's not the reason you'd do it it's one result of doing it.
They are as indigeous as,well, Romans
The Celts were driven out of the middle bit of the UK into what is now the country of Wales by the Romans. It's difficult to conceptualise the movements of people into and around this Island, but the Welsh Celts were originally a Germanic tribe from mainland Europe, so I've been told.
If the Germans are perhaps the indigenous Brits, it explains why Chesney and I feel so at home here.
Because they were not " Americans" attempting to use it and were not paying taxes into the system.
Numerous accounts of the ineffectual program is available, from any news source.Agencies and States had horrific problems budgetting and implementing it much as they do now with current programs to address covid for those labelled poverty (non-qualified ) with issues of overstaffed, non-profits and misguided personnel based on govt.funding.
Muvh the same as attempting to learn from past failures with Covid.
Either money exists or does not.
Across the board poverty ...think long and hard.
There are branches, separate URLs for UK,AU,CN
and possibly mods are not even assigned by regions.
Global appeal is why most chose to be here over local sites.
The Australian NHS was introduced with fierce opposition, and whilst far from perfect, and straining under the pressure of aging population (ME!) does us pretty proud. It costs lest than 10% of GDP compared with 17% in the USA. America has many successful models to choose from, yet rejects them all.
WE decide how to spend the fruits of our labor, not the government. We are not prisoners of someone else's idea of what constitutes "social welfare." We make decisions about how to spend the money that we earn ourselves, we don't cede it to other people. That goes to the heart of what liberty is about.
The vast majority of technological advances in medicine that the world enjoys today came from private enterprise in AMERICA. They did NOT come from socialist countries. Untold hundreds of millions of lives have been saved and human suffering relieved because America REFUSED to give up their right to choose how they wanted to consume their healthcare and not leave a personal matter like that to some government bureaucrat. America is at the forefront of medicine. It's where heads of state come to get treatment they cannot get anywhere else in the world. It's where people from all over the world, rich or poor come to get the care and innovative medicine they cannot get anywhere else. It is the very fact that America does NOT turn it's healthcare over to the government that these innovations exist. Take away the incentive to innovate and the world will be deprived of the unmatched medical innovation America has graciously shared with the world.
Americans value FREEDOM. They do not cede their freedom to ANYONE. That is the core of what has made America the greatest nation in the history of mankind and the beacon of freedom and prosperity admired by every nation in the world.
For those of us who aren't from the centre of the universe, the site is clearly a US site with respect to it's cultural influences. We are in a position of having to navigate that in a way some US citizens perhaps don't.
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With an accent please.
Greed, lies, manipulation to gain the wealth and remain on top drives these people.
An example of Trump telling the American people to take a medicine that has not been proven to help with Covid. It is all about his wealth and his investment....money, money, money.
These same people fail to remember that they can't take all these money in their grave....
Universal health-care will not be profitable, so it is not popular in America.
The American Apple Pie is not American
Despite the phrase that labels it the zenith of American culture ("as American as apple pie"), the flaky, fruity dessert didn't originate in the US.
Recipes for pie can be found as early as the Ancient Greeks, according to the American Pie Council. However, medieval England popularized the dish, then known as "pyes" with crusts called "coffyns," and usually filled with meat.
Both Dutch and British settlers are credited with bringing the humble apple pie to the Americas.
America's national anthem is sung to the tune of a British drinking song.
When Francis Scott Key penned the words to the poem that ultimately became "The Star-Spangled Banner," he had the melody of a rather ignoble song in mind. "To Anacreon in Heaven" is a British drinking song that praises debauchery rather than patriotism — yet Americans proudly listen to and sing the notoriously tricky-to-nail tune on the Fourth of July and at countless sporting events throughout the year.
Some Americans need to stop lying to themselves.