Re: ??US Citizen emigrating to Europe???

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Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> Most people consider theUS to be little more than barbarian in its approach
>> to health care. 
>Who are "most people"? I consider US healthcare excellent. You have
>choice,
>there are no waiting lists, and you can have a private room (no wards
>with opportunities for infection and no privacy.

Yeah, provided you are one of the minority with insurance.  And if you
had a pre-existing condition before taking out the insurance you're
shafted.

>>it's too open to
>> corruption and cronyism...and isn't really democratic anyway, thanks to the
>> endemic gerrymandering of electoral boundaries. 
>The gerrymandering is sadly true, but at least elected officeholders
>in the US tend to care more about the people who elected them

The people who fund them, not who elect them.  There's a big difference.

>than trying to build socialism, like the Labour Party. Since the US is
>so prosperous, there might just be something worth learning from it.

It's also the most dangerous country in the western world by a long way.

phil