Heath Care Safety-Net

Comment from a reader on "US Citizens Abroad Paying For Nothing":

This is the kind of narrow-minded thinking that keeps the United States in the realm of Third World health care while Europe, Canada and Australian citizens move ahead.

Yes, Americans abroad would likely have to pay a small amount in taxes for universal health care which they can't enjoy overseas, just as many people in advanced countries do. And true when they stub their toe overseas, they couldn't get the US health care system to pay for it. But when the catastrophic ailment comes - cancer, stroke, heart attack - Americans under a universal system could go home and get care, like Aussies and Canadians can.

Today, if Americans overseas have a catastrophic illness, they can go home to die, but they can't go home to get better. Nothing waits for them in the US in terms of medical assistance except the county hospital where they can line up with the gunshot victims and drug addicts and hope for the best.

America needs to catch up with the rest of the developed world and start providing universal health care (whether the cheap charlies overseas like it or not).

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What does this have to do with the SBFZ!?

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