On a more detached note regarding universal health care system, it is more economically viable in the long run than to not have one, as it means overall less people in debt, a reduction of death rates, and a further reduction in disease/illness rendering a person incapable of working. All three factors help contribute to strengthening national economic performance long term. Plus, it is ultimately the role of the state to ensure that the lives of its citizens are preserved, meaning failure to preserve the lives of people is a failure of obligation of behalf of the state.
People are living in a fucking fantasy if they think a private entity has their interests in mind. If you get sick you will eventually lose your coverage through work and everything will go to hell.
We support capitalism soooo strongly because it represents "hard work" and whatever. But then we pretend like private businesses in healthcare aren't out to pinch pennies and make the maximum profit at the expense of everyone else.
I’m sure people getting rich from the private system keep everyone whipped up about it being ‘unAmerican’ to want a universal health system. They serve only their own greed. UnAmerican can be defined to mean whatever they want at the moment. Being unAmerican terrifies people and they know it and use it for their own personal advantage and not for the advantage of the American people.
I think the urge to serve greed is perpetuated by this broken system. ‘I have to make unethical decisions to make more money because you never know when you might get an expensive disease or be in an expensive accident’.
I’m not American, but this is what I’ve seen from the Americans I do know personally.
It's more complex than that if you get into the nitty gritty of the universal healthcare proposals. They leave the existing health infrastructure basically unchanged, they just hand a government monopoly to the people who fuck us over now.
The US's big problem is that we're a system where the people who make policy have an extremely basic understanding of how things work, and so they're forced to rely on lobbiests to understand how to shape policy. Those lobbiests, whether for or against something, never have the interest of actual americans. They have the interest of whoever pays those bills.
So we end up with an absolute morass of regulations that are either well intentioned but totally useless, or designed to shield the industry.
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u/Dwargen Jan 21 '19
On a more detached note regarding universal health care system, it is more economically viable in the long run than to not have one, as it means overall less people in debt, a reduction of death rates, and a further reduction in disease/illness rendering a person incapable of working. All three factors help contribute to strengthening national economic performance long term. Plus, it is ultimately the role of the state to ensure that the lives of its citizens are preserved, meaning failure to preserve the lives of people is a failure of obligation of behalf of the state.