Friends in the UK: PLEASE don't go down the private path to healthcare. It is devastating to human lives and spirit.
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Nov 22, 2015 · 4:26 PM UTC
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@asbig Well, if you have ANY choice, do everything you can. We didn't have any choice in the US. What remains our #1 domestic issue? Yeah.
@asbig I'm sorry, but the UK is not even remotely close to US healthcare woes. That it's becoming more like it and at an alarming rate, yes.
@asbig When you can't get treated for a mortal illness, lose job, home, dignity and end up deeply in debt for the honor then you're close.
@asbig Please don't make light of it. I'm living it. You're not.
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@asbig And yet I'm advocating on your behalf. Why would you think you are even close? You still have NHS in the UK. We never did. EVER.
@aebadirad That makes no sense. It's a balance of resources skewed to where it's helpful for the few and not the many. Always has been.
@asbig I'm sorry. I have a notoriously hair trigger temper, and nothing yanks it quite like the topic of healthcare. You are a good friend 💙
@mollydotcom Most of us don't want it. But the government does what it wants.
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@zachinglis The government does what it wants? Blasphemy! Of, by and for. Oh, wait...
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@aebadirad @mollydotcom Cost of providing 2015 healthcare to everyone in U.S. does not exceed resources, just exceeds political will 1/2