re: #448 austin_blue

Most European countries have a two-tiered system. If you can afford a private insurance contract that allows you to do procedures that would normally require a certain waiting period, you can get it. My brother-in-law and sister live in England. He needs his gall bladder yanked. It is scheduled for September, and it will be free. In the meantime, he has been given instructions on how to modify his diet to limit adverse affects until then. People grumble about the NHS, but, like Canada, they really don’t want the free for all that is the American system, where the insurance companies skim 20% off the top. Neither does small business, which would be paying that 20% vig.

The reason insurance companies have to take such a cut is that they have to spend billiobs paying out lawsuits filed by ambulance-chasing lawyers. But unlike other costs, Obama won’t even touch tort reform because the trial lawyers have the DNC in their top pocket.