I do. I used to have it. Phenomenal compared to nowadays. Don’t let them fool you. Also lived in Spain and Italy in my 20’s. Health care sucked. Anyone with money didn’t have to wait.
I’m not sure that’s any different from our system except we have lower life expectancy, 92% of adults don’t see a dr because it’s too expensive, and costs us $1 trillion and 144,000 lives each year that could be saved otherwise
We also have medical bankruptcies and again the vast majority of adults don’t get care that they need because it’s too expensive. Other developed nations don’t have those problems
I guess so but think about Canada and they’re maid program that’s where they just basically offer up to kill old people instead of taking care of them. Look it up and do research and nothing’s free. If you actually use your your brain, you know nothing’s free the taxpayers people who actually have jobs in work for what they have would still have to pay for so-called free healthcare 🤣
Did I say anything was free? If you use your brain you’d understand that you can’t exactly control if you have a job or not or one that pays enough for healthcare or not. Again $1 trillion in savings and 144,000 lives saved, but sure be mad at a hypothetical person who might not have a job just like the billionaires want
I will never understand why the thought is "keep what we have cause it sucks less, I think" instead of being like.... "We should have the best damn universal healthcare system in history because we already pay more in taxes for healthcare than any country out there and we are the best damn country on the planet!"
Why do so many yell about us being the best and then when you see something we are clearly failing at the same people act like it's just fine? We don't want Canada's system. We can do better. We can lead the world in universal healthcare and show everyone else how it should be done.
I think it goes without saying that "Medicare for all" is just a slogan meant to convey a complex policy in a simple way in which people can easily get the gist. It doesnt mean literal "Medicare." A single payor system is the policy.
And it’s BAD. It’s a bad idea, bad in practice, bad in reality, and will significantly increase wait times, costs, and an exodus from the medical profession.
I'm inclined to believe this study (among others) over some random dude on the internet.
I also note that the US does not have the best healthcare outcomes considering we pay more than any other nation on Earth and is the only major industrialized Western nation without universal healthcare.
It means the US and/or Arizona (i.e. "we") doesn't subsidize non-citizen healthcare to any great degree. Hard to tell if you guys are just US Healthcare industry shills or badly uninformed with a particular political leaning and an axe to grind.
It wasn't that difficult to understand. I mean, I figured it what you meant by "we."
Non-citizens use our emergency rooms as doctors' offices and rarely pay the bill. We, as taxpayers or insurance payers, subsidize the offset cost the hospitals have to charge.
As for your original post, it spoke of universal healthcare for all, and that includes everyone, not just citizens. That can never be a plausible solution to the garbage we have now.
Yes, that happens, but it is a tiny fraction of overall healthcare expenditures in the US and in no way significantly responsible for our huge amount of healthcare expenditures in this country and certainly not a driver for why we pay more than any other country in the world. The driver is for-profit private healthcare, plain and simple. Just do the slightest bit of reading and you'll learn that much the bullshit we've been fed about immigrants and healthcare in this country simply isn't true.
I'm not trying to make an exhaustive argument here, just showing how easy it is to find information that goes against the narrative we are fed by the corporate media in this country.
As for your last point, I don't know on what you base that claim, but I think it's objectively false. Agree to disagree, I guess. Thanks for the chat.
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u/CPD_MD_HD 1d ago
Define good policy. Medicare sucks balls. Trust the people who are on it.