What to do About Healthcare

Here is a story about a medical emergency experienced through the British socialized system and the American system. It reaffirms why I am against socialized healthcare: filthy hospitals causing infections, decrepit and outdated equipment, and sky high cost of living due to extremely high taxation to pay for the system. However, the British healthcare providers are to be applauded at their professionalism and ability to do so much with so little. In this story the patient's husband had to help out by purchasing supplies from a local pharmacy and by cleaning the filthy hospital room. Our system is very expensive because of the fear that the patient will sue the hospital. In Britain the loser pays court costs and therefore that fear does not impede the hospital's ability to help its patients. Both systems have strengths and weaknesses. There must be a middle ground that would enable our system to become affordable for every American without heavy taxation to socialize healthcare. Read the entire story and you will understand what I mean. I cannot accept socialized medicine as a solution because, as the case is in Britain, it would destroy our economy and lower our standard of living. London's cost of living is twice as high as Manhatten's yet the average salaries in London are half what they are in America. Thus, while everyone in Britian has "free" healthcare they are also living around the poverty line to pay for the system.