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U.S. offers its human rights record for U.N. review

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It's actually a great deal more than a piece of paper, it attempts to guarantee human rights and freedoms and has done quite a good job.. American history compares very favorably with any European, Asian, African or South American countries. If you can name more 'mature' nations that can compare with that of the United States I'd appreciate hearing what they might be.

At any rate, I'd hope that you think the US is still maturing, because it's a ****ty place for your evolution to have stopped, if it indeed has at the present day.
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What makes you think that? People from all over the world are still trying to live there.


It seems there are other nations far more deserving of inspection than the United States. I think we can both name a few.
 
Awesome.

An international organization full of dictators and diplomats, who do not represent their own people, get to excuse their oppressions and bad behaviors over a celebration of America's imperfections. And it really doesn't matter how slight those imperfections are or how insignificant they are compared to the whole of our identity. Is it possible that the greatest force for good over the last 200 years have made mistakes along the way? Is it possible that we have built the last standing "empire" with not only moral high ground, but also a little shadow activity? Has the entire free world been saved from Barbary Pirates, Spaniards, Japanese, Germans and Russians with only good manners? Nobody should really worry about this. Any one of our stumbles can be multiplied over and over for everybody else across the oceans. In the end, we outshine even our closest allies. Of course, our allies and enemies will take great pleasure in exaggerating anything they can for the sake of their own decrepit (very recent) histories.

With America being the muscle for the UN since the Korean War and the Soviet Union (light) and China being Security members, who gives a damn about what the UN thinks.
 
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It's really the separation of Christianity and State.
 




Yep, Canadian health care sounds just great.


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Yep, Canadian health care sounds just great.
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Unless you know better.

It was better before the government got involved and I suspect it was better before the HMO's and Medicare became big in the States. Whatever comes between doctors and patients is not good, and we know prices are going to go crazy when they do. Where Canadians can go to get proper medical treatment once the the US changes their system is causing a bit of a dilemma for Canadians.

Medical tourism is becoming big business in Central America though, where I am right now, so at least there are still areas of free enterprise, as well as agreements directly between doctor and patient.
 
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Something willm always come between doctors and patients, even if it is just money. The patient who can't afford care, won't get it under any system. It's a false argument to suggest that the only way someone is between the patient and the doctor is with government involvement. For the patient who can't afford care, that intervention seems pretty damn good.
 
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Yep, Canadian health care sounds just great.
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Right, and patients here in the US aren't at times denied life-saving treatment simply because the health insurer decides it's less expensive to delay in court and let the patient die rather than pay for care.
 

There are people who can't afford health care because the middleman, either the government or insurance companies, are forcibly involving themselves in the process. Intervention between two consenting parties committing a legal act is never pretty damn good. We can see how that works.
 

That's not really true. Remove them, and the cost is still prohibative. Medicien will not go back to a time of trading fruits and vegatables for service, and even then, most could not afford adequate care and simply went without.
 
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That's not really true. Remove them, and the cost is still prohibative. Medicien will not go back to a time of trading fruits and vegatables for service, and even then, most could not afford adequate care and simply went without.
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There is absolutely no evidence that this is the case. With outsiders deciding how much the doctor will receive, as well as the restrictions that be followed, then it naturally follows that there will be more money going to the middleman rather than the doctor. Someone has to pay for all that administration that's required to oversee who's getting what, and that's why prices are so high.

At one time, before these shenanigans began, most people could afford a doctor and if there was a special needs case, such as in the polio epidemic, private citizens jumped in to help. And when there was a special rare operation that was expensive, family, friends and neighbors all chipped in to help.

Those days are gone now, thanks to a recent ideology that some stranger, "the rich" according to this administration, should pay for everyone else. This is immoral of course but that won't stop the process. It will eventually collapse from its own weight, as we can see elsewhere, but facts will never stop the ideologues.
 

Outsiders generally work to bring costs down. Third party payers want to pay less and not more.

Before third party payers, we lived in a different world. Medicine was limited, and many relied on home remedies. What medicine many got form doctors was from a town physician who often traded services for things liek fruits and vegatables. Only the very wealthy had access to more. As medicine became more advanced, people were being left out of it and were easy prey to dishonest quacks who lacked the actual training, causing harm. So, we began to regulate more and bring in insurance.

This allowed more people access. And allowed for people to specialize and do more for people than they could in the past. Sure, people aslo came to expect more, and that has it's problems, but overall this has been good. No one really wants a return no matter how much they have forgotten or don't know the actual history here, but the fact is, we won't go back. So with that fact, we need to see how to go forward.

And the rich are not so abused as they want to stop being rich. I know their lot is a hard, hard thing. Sad really. But they still prefer being them than the poor. :coffeepap
 
 
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How is third party involvement going to bring costs down? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
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By saying what they will and won't pay for, negotiating savings, and denying payment for certian types of procedures (death panels :coffeepap )

Are you saying that had there been third party inolvement 80 years ago or so, the technology would have been better? That's just a part of how we have advanced in almost all areas of life, and has nothing whatsoever with third party involvement.
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Remember, better doesn't mean only. Sure, there are other factors and other ways, but yes, it would have been better (though that was a main point of mine). The point was more where we were, and that technology increased and people could not afford it, and didn't actually have access to it. Insurance provided access.

That did occasionally happen but so what? The bottom line is that people got treated.
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Acutally no. Many did not get treated, and fewer got good treatment. Most could not afford the modern techonologies.


That is simply not true. It's not even remotely true and you should be ashamed for making such a claim.
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No, that is true.

When doctors began learning more about diseases and effective treatments, they started charging more - more than most people could afford. They also needed to treat people in hospitals to take advantage of new medical technology, which further added to the costs. Couple that with the start of the Great Depression, and the situation was even worse.

U. S. Healthcare History

For a number of reasons, health care costs also began to rise during the 1920’s, mostly because the middle class began to use hospital services and hospital costs started to increase. Medical, and especially hospital, care was now a bigger item in family budgets than wage losses.

A Brief History: Universal Health Care Efforts in the US | Physicians for a National Health Program

Price has always rationed health care in this country.

That is simplistic nonsense as well. I'd really like to see your sources for this disinformation.
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See above, or look up the history of health care insurance. cost was outdistancing people's ability to pay, so insurance was needed. There were efforts at being about nation health insurance, but the same socialism scares we see today were at work back then, and that is how we came to have insurance attach to the empolyer. I could link several history sites, but I think you can do that as seasily as I can.


The fact is that with government involvement no one has any idea where you are going. No one does because it's all based on whimsy.
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I'm really not sure what you're saying here. Can you clarify?



Well, they're free to go. Greed has always played a role in world history. I don't suspect that will change. And the wealthy lived overseas even in the past. So, I'm not sure I care about this too much. Workers and the average citizen loses either way.
 
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