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As well as reducing the influence of the insurance companies the Government needs to look at the whole litigation industry attached to healthcare. A lot of medicine here is really what is you would call defensive. Doctors are afraid of law suits so they will order endless tests and scans etc. to...

One of the most amusing things was seeing Rush Limbaugh, one of the right wing nutters on talk radio, make a complete tit of himself. He was taken into a hospital in Hawaii suffering from chest pains (which unfortunately weren't fatal). After being treated he said how wonderful that American...

A lot of Americans do see this as the first step on the slippery slope to Socialism. They conveniently forget that it was the Obama administration that had to bail out Wall Street and the Government briefly owned over 50% of the major US banks and insurance companies, that sure sounds like...

Insurance companies and lawyers run healthcare in the States and it is very lucrative for them. They are not going to give up that position easily and they have the money to make sure it doesn’t. They employ armies of people to reject or reduce claims. One of the guys in the office is still...

The company I work for provides healthcare as part of my employment package. When you get ill you go to your local doctor or ER and you are treated. That’s when your problems can start. You will have to make a co-payment (this is standard on most insurance schemes in the US) on even a basic...