Cosmopolitan Healthcare in the US?

Slavmed is back from a Sabbatical! We just couldn't stay away when all this interesting "healthcare reform" stuff happens!

You all heard that Investor’s Business Daily ( a little to the right!) announced that the handicapped physicist Stephen Hawking “wouldn’t have a chance,” in Britain because the government run National Health Service would consider his life “essentially worthless.”

You do know that Professor Hawking was born in Britain, has lived there all his life. BTW, he expressed that he is quite happy with the care he received.

Proposed Obamacare is not like Britain's system. Faux News is screaming that the plan would turn America into the former Soviet Union. But Paul Krugman (NEW YORK TIMES) says that the plan would turn America into Switzerland, far from a "socialist hellhole".

Every civilized country other than the United States guarantees necessary care to all its citizens. Switzerland relies on private insurance companies, using a combination of regulation and subsidies to ensure that everyone is covered. Everyone is required to buy insurance, insurers can’t discriminate based on medical history or pre-existing conditions, and lower-income citizens get government help in paying for their policies. Short of single payer system, it sounds pretty reasonable, doesn't it?

Swiss-style universal healthcare coverage is so much better than the US status quo. And we already know it works in Switzerland.

So if Obamacare Swissifies America, SlavMed would be out of business. We better start developing new product lines.