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Originally Posted by Army_of_One  Ok...first of all you can look out for your neighbor sans the "christian values"....."Christian values" (a paradox in my mind) will look out for your neighbor as long as he's not Gay, muslim, wiccan etc.... |
Take the word "Christian" out of the equation if you like, and exchange it for "human", if it makes you feel better. If a person is suffering or in danger of dying then to my mind it doesn't matter whether they are gay, muslim, rich or poor, black, yellow or white, (and add whatever else you like), the number one priority is to help that person as a fellow human being who is in need.
Whilst our National Health Service, (NHS), is not perfect, it does offer free help to everyone, no matter where they live in the UK, and no matter how rich or poor they are, no matter what race, colour or religion they are. As I've said before to my mind, the mark of a civilised society is how it treats its most vunerable and needy, the sick, the elderly, and the disabled. The law of the jungle, dog-eat-dog, where the strongest & richest survive and let the weak & vunerable go under, should have no place in a society that classes itself civilised.
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2nd of all...talk about dignity...in some socialized medicine society's I have read of people that are older being turned down for care because it was too expensive and basically the cost/benefit of spending a lot of gov't money on someone that is 90 and isn't working and contributing to the tax pot gets bumped. What's your tax rate there?
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Let me ask you a question: do your American health care companies want to insure older, more elderly people? These are the very people that probably need help. How do they manage in their retirement years?
The NHS does not operate on any age restrictions, it offers universal care to all UK subjects.
Our income tax rates are: (I'll roughly convert it from £ to $)
$0 - $72,000 20%
Over $72,000 40%