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thats my choice.

The stories about american ambulances leaving people dead or injured on the streets are an urban myth - spend a few weeks there and see how much your money goes and the freedom and opportunities that americans have because of their tax system and see who's better eh.

They piss all over us.

If we had the best of everything and lived in some neo tokyo esque utopia because of the tax we pay then i might be inclined to support our system. But our social services are an absolute joke and i have no support for them.

You have the choice to buy a car, and then you can choose your level of insurance.

CHOICE.

thats where your family is supposed to come in.

No wonder we have such a breakdown in the fabric of society, so many single mothers, divorces and a breakdown of the family unit when there is no importance placed on families in the first place.

If all of those above happened to me, i would think my family who arent rich by any means - would do their best to take me in and care for me.

Let me guess... is this where you ask me what i would do if i had none of those either?

selfish my arse - stop coming out with such facist statements coletrickle.

If im selfish then why do i pay 600 pounds a month into this nations coffers per month - lol.

If we didnt fight so many wars, didnt support so many lazy arsed losers, and let this country be attractive to high value businesses then we wouldnt need to worry about supporting people who cant afford healthcare - there simply would be no need to worry about things like that to the extent we are now.

You've said youve travelled around a bit before eh - have you been to Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Tokyo before? Well they have probably HALF the tax we pay (if not less) and those people have a higher standard of life and are kicking our bloody arses in terms of advancing themselves in the 21st century - didnt you see this?

Why should an amazingly advanced place like hong kong have a futuristic metro system that costs 40p a journey but still makes a profit? why are there so many people with rolex watches? Why is everyone looking like they are doing better than us and have a higher quality of life? .... maybe its because they arent living somewhere where the state does its best to make life as hard as possible for them.

Look around you for gods sake - theres nothing 'great' about britain and our health service aint 'all that' either.

In a decent state - families would support their ill grandmother. Your coming up with 'straw man' arguments (distorted views of the situation) to rationalise the entire health system. Thats madness.

Not wanting to have a state health system alike what we have is not being UN 'civilized' - once again your just attacking someone with different views than yourself as being somehow subhuman or worse than you for holding those opinions. Thats not on.

I was giving examples of similar western and eastern countries who are as rich as we are (in economic terms) - poor countries are completely irrelevant from the point i was making.

Last time i read, Japan had one of the highest - if not the highest life expectancy in the world.... and was it not in the news recently that we are turning into a nation of people who will not outlive their parents.

Dont insult my intelligence sunshine - i dont regard myself as a genius, but im sure as hell you arent one either.

Out of interest - how much tax and national insurance per month do you pay?

The same companies that spend millions and millions of pounds developing these drugs just for some indian company to knock out bootleg versions for pennies?

I dont agree with the way things are, but the companies who invent these drugs are businesses at the end of the day - they arent in business to give their products away to third world countries at a loss.

Yes the situation needs fixing as its inhumane to keep basic things from third world countries - but its government policy you need to criticise, not 'bastard medicine companies'

So your on about 33 grand a year then - if your happy to see 30% of your income disappear before you get a chance to spend it, thats great.

Not for me tho.

You need to do your homework then because it ISNT.