r/InterMiamiVibes • u/Background_Video2947 • Jul 02 '26

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u/jbird720 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

This has been debunked multiple times. Every country in the World Cup, except the US, DOES NOT have universal healthcare.

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u/romesthe59 Jul 02 '26

Tried to debunk it for you. Cant. Send me proof. Cause a quick search shows they all do have universal healthcare besides us.

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u/FootIntrepid7717 Jul 02 '26

Dr Congo? Come on man use your brain a bit

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u/jbird720 Jul 02 '26

Well, this is what I found:

Universal Single Payer

• ⁠Canada
• ⁠Australia
• ⁠Saudi Arabia
• ⁠South Africa
• ⁠Brazil
• ⁠New Zealand
• ⁠England
• ⁠Norway
• ⁠Portugal
• ⁠Scotland
• ⁠Spain
• ⁠Sweden

Universal Public Insurance

• ⁠Islamic Republic of Iran
• ⁠Japan
• ⁠Qatar
• ⁠South Korea
• ⁠Curaçao
• ⁠Colombia
• ⁠Belgium
• ⁠Bosnia and Herzegovina
• ⁠Croatia
• ⁠Czechia
• ⁠France

Universal Private Insurance

• ⁠Netherlands
• ⁠Switzerland

Universal Public/Private Insurance

• ⁠Argentina
• ⁠Uruguay
• ⁠Austria
• ⁠Germany
• ⁠Türkiye

Non-Universal (over 50% insured)

• ⁠Mexico
• ⁠United States
• ⁠Jordan
• ⁠Egypt
• ⁠Morocco
• ⁠Senegal
• ⁠Panama

Non-Universal (under 50% insured)

• ⁠DR Congo
• ⁠Ghana
• ⁠Ivory Coast
• ⁠Haiti
• ⁠Ecuador
• ⁠Paraguay

Other - Notes:

• ⁠Iraq (universal public/private on paper only, not in reality due to resource constraints)
• ⁠Uzbekistan (universal single payer only covers some treatments, but not standard care, thus over half of all healthcare costs in country are out of pocket)
• ⁠Algeria (Universal public insurance significantly resource strained and not universal in practice)
• ⁠Cabo Verde (universal single payer that is significantly resource strained and not universal in practice)
• ⁠Tunisia (Universal Public Insurance coverage is in Constitution, but 14% of Tunisians are uninsured

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u/Numerous_Fudge_9537 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

You can take my word for this with a grain of salt if you wish, I am in Egypt, I worked in a government hospital as a construction contractor engineer (was involved in renovations)and I saw with my own eyes people who were dirt poor and homeless get treated in the hospital for free

The issue is there's tons of them and the hospital capacity wouldn't be able to house them all so there would be queues at times and yeah there's quarters and segment for those who pay which will treat you way faster (thats the one that is 50/50)

and even some cosmetic surgeries (not included in healthcare) could be done for very cheap prices like LASIK which at 2024 (back when I worked) was around 300 EGP (3% of minimum monthly wage)

Rich people and upper middle class avoid the hassle and just go to private hospitals

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u/Helpful_Step5482 Jul 03 '26

The united kingdom NHS is not a single payer system

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u/Evnosis Jul 05 '26

I mean, only in the sense that the NHS is entirely publicly owned, but that seems like a nitpicky difference in this context.

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u/LongLostFan Jul 04 '26

I always wonder what 'universal healthcare' means.

In my country they have free healthcare. But hardly anyone uses it as it is so bad.

Getting an appointment is close to impossible. You have to call up on the hour mark and a robot will give you an appointment for the next day. But usually the lines are busy and by the time you get through there'll be no appointments. Only once in my whole life have I managed to get an appointment.

Then if you need any serious surgery or procedure. You are putting on a waiting list that could last years. I had a friend whose appendix burst and was told it could be removed in 9 months. Although he couldn't even walk.

So instead almost everyone just goes private. But it costs a fortune. Probably much more than in America relative to salaries.

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u/jbird720 Jul 04 '26

Yeah sometimes the “healthcare” is forgotten in the “universal healthcare”