Just been dealing with the pharmacy and our health insurance

[xiphias]

Can anyone give me an example of ANY problem that we'd have with socialized medicine that we don't have right now with our current health care system?

I mean, if I'm going to have to go through byzantine, bizzare, arbitrary bureaucracy and have to bang my head against walls and argue with people to have simple, commonsense health care taken care of, I'd like to at least know that it was available to everyone.

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[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Not in New Zealand it doesn't. Health care here is not "universally crappy" -- it's universally pretty bloody good, actually. The thought of being in the USA with no medical insurance (or the wrong kind) scares me half to death.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Awesome. Maybe you can share some of your secrets to convincing HMO-funded politicians how to implement some of that -- I'm getting tired of Managed Care (as in, "It's amazing you Managed to get any Care at all!")