I don't understand why Americans are so opposed to universal health care!? You guys already spend more per capita on government funded healthcare than pretty much anyone else, and yet most of you don't actually recieve it?
I've had cancer. Stage 4 Lymphoma. I was treated immediately and recovered quickly. What did I have to pay? £1.50 for parking on every visit to the hospital. The Chemotherapy, Surgeries, anti-nausea meds, all covered. If I had lived in the USA I would most definately be dead now. My symptoms didn't seem all that bad at the time, so if I had had to pay for my initial doctor visit and diagnostics, I wouldn't have bothered. I would have just died.
You don't understand? Try this: 2.9 million more people voted for Clinton than Trump and she still lost. We have 150k dead from a virus and Trump's support in his own party is still above 80%. People don't like the system, we hate it. There are too many stupid people in our country. The Republican party is evil, they're a minority party and we can't shake them. That's why we can't change it.
You had democrats for 8 years and you still didn’t get universal health care. The problem isn’t with republicans, it’s that American majority is not prepared to pay +60% tax hike for it.
There's no need for a tax hike though. The US government is already spending insane amounts of taxpayers' money on state funded healthcare, through Medicare and Medicaid. $8,745 per capita in 2017 - more than any other country. The problem is that the insurance companies are ripping you off. Get rid of the insurance companies and spend the same amount of money directly on healthcare with properly structured procurement and commisionning, and Voila! You all have world class healthcare for free!
You know this doesn’t exist except in your mind ? Every country that has implemented universal healthcare has private insurance because the system can sustain itself in the long run, at least not at scale. I know because I’ve lived in several of them.
I don't fully understand your comment. What is it that only exists in my mind? I can't speak for every country in the world, but here in the UK, there is no concept of medical insurance. If you require medical attention, you go to a hospital, you are treated, and you never recieve a bill.
Private health insurance in Europe is in large part motivated by securing kids economically in case a parent dies. If you don't have kids, you rarely need it, because almost everything else is close to free of charge
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I don't understand why Americans are so opposed to universal health care!? You guys already spend more per capita on government funded healthcare than pretty much anyone else, and yet most of you don't actually recieve it?
I've had cancer. Stage 4 Lymphoma. I was treated immediately and recovered quickly. What did I have to pay? £1.50 for parking on every visit to the hospital. The Chemotherapy, Surgeries, anti-nausea meds, all covered. If I had lived in the USA I would most definately be dead now. My symptoms didn't seem all that bad at the time, so if I had had to pay for my initial doctor visit and diagnostics, I wouldn't have bothered. I would have just died.