Yep, that will certainly be a big compensation for the folks who find themselves without medical insurance.
Hardly Mrs T's fault now, is it? Why so bitter?
The so-called underclass is ever with us, always will be. It's a direct result of breeding where breeding was not the sensible economic choice to have made. You overfill schools, streets and neighbourhoods with kids with half a parental influence - at best - and what can you expect? There's no encouragement for study at home, if there is even a home, and so the snowball grows. People create their own mess in so many different and insidious ways, which every single one of us breathing can verify if we just look back at our own mistakes and see them for what they are: our own fault. Of course, we all feel so much better holding up placards and shifting the blame str¡dently onto other shoulders. But, deep down inside, we still know, don't we?
Frankly, I thought Mr T was not cut out for politics because of confrontational tendencies, but in today's world, where nothing seems to make political sense, perhaps he will turn out to be a breath of fresh air.
I can also say that watching the street demonstrations against him fills me with a sense of shame that I suspect many Americans must feel - and I'm not an American. Some people gather around simplistic slogans and question nothing. Just like some third world people, then: follow blindly and hate. Within the U.S. system, he won. Period.
Health insurance. Depends on the system in place in your country. I have experienced both: for years I paid private health insurance and, for a while (in Spain), when I was already eligible for state insurance, continued to pay for private and it seved us well; then in an emergency we discovered that the state version was just as effective with the only difference being that patients had to share a room with another person. Even the docs share their time between the two systems. However, there comes a time when you no longer work, that you can't keep up with inflation if the banks don't pay interest on your savings and so you can't do what you once could, and then everything changes in your life, and you have to depend on the state for emergencies that will always arrive to say hi!
Now, some think that the state's health system is free, that anyone using it is a scrounger; not so, you do contribute to the health system all your working life, just as if you were paying into a private scheme. Where the Brit one seems to go awry is that it's too broad in its application, and covers all sorts of items that are not essential to life or death, and so it becomes abused.
I think that one way of striking a better balance would be to have an earnings point where it became mandatory for the person to buy private insurance simply because he can then afford it. If social security help is supposed to be there in order to help those who need help, a lifeboat, if you will, then those who do not need financial help, but simply need medical attention for which they can afford to pay private insurance, that's what they should do. Still contributing to the national system - hardly a puntive sum of money - would guarantee that come the time they retire and may no longer be able afford private insurances, they will not be left to die on the street either, just because they did well for some years.
Rob