The horrors of socialized medicine Part II

Steven has left a new comment on your post "The horrors of socialized medicine":

I love how you've painted a few albeit tragic events as being commonplace and described the British healthcare system as being 'horrific' despite, I imagine, never having had the privilege of experiencing their good care and attention. My mother has had nearly 20 operations which would NEVER be affordable under private healthcare, all without any adverse effects. My father receives any medication he needs free of charge since having his thyroids removed. A friends mother (at 67) was afflcited with Necrotizing fasciitis and spent nine months in hospital recovering from having 30% of her mass surgically removed, what would the bill be for that in America? How much would she be charged for the colostomy bags she needs for the rest of her life? Or would she have died while administrators sought out her insurance details? Another friends mother was given a hip replacement aged 80 - not much likelyhood of that being covered in America without a hefty bankroll to cover it now is there? Women actually travel from eastern europe to have their babies delivered here because of the high degree of healthcare - costing the taxpayer £22,000 a pop I might add. I myself am on the road to developing thyroid cancer and while living in North America, you can bet your sweet ass I'll be heading home for treatment, insured or not.

I found this reply particularly significant, not because the poster blindly assumes various health problems are NOT covered in the USA but because he brags about the fact that the UK is being ripped off to pay for the health care of foreign visitors and ex patriots who left the country for good. Notice the socialist bent to the post, how he brags about UK taxpayers being taken to the cleaners, claiming that this wealth redistribution is a good thing.

It says a lot about Steven that he considers the wholesale rape of his nation's economy to be a good thing, because Eastern European reprobates can have kids who will in turn live off the government dole. Why is an increase in the homeless and destitute population seen as a good thing by these people? Why do liberals advocate socialist health care so freely and happily? Why do they see their nation hemorrhaging money to pay for the needs of illegal immigrants as a sign that the system works?

The answer of curse is that the poster, while a UK citizen, has moved to the USA, and plans to return to the UK only for medical care. He thinks it's a good system because it means someone else is paying the bill. It won't even be his tax dollars used to pay for his own health care if he does go to the UK for treatment. He thinks it's a good thing because he isn't paying a dime for it.

Sorry, he thinks it's a good thing because he isn't paying a farthing for it.

He isn't even paying taxes into the system he intends to exploit. I can't think of a better illustration of what's wrong with a single payer, government subsidized health care system. This is what Obama wants to bring to the USA. Do YOU want America to become the planet's free clinic, offering subpar care to the entire planet?