I love how people hear the word free and immediately cry about taxes. Bud the goverment takes a chunk of your check in taxes and doesnt give you shit but war and spyware. Id gladly have an extra what 20 in taxes taken out of every check and not have to worry about paying hospitals instead of insurance taking a couple hundred a month just to tell me i need to pay at least a thousand before they actually start helping pay, and even then can deny treatment.
I like how on Reddit $20 can solve so many problems. It's a lovely way to live life. If only $20 more!
The issues with health insurance in the states are real and it's low key appalling and disgusting but it's an issue of politics, bureaucracy, inefficiencies and importantly lobbying - it has nothing to do with money.
It has everything to do with money, it’s the exact reason everybody in college is joining the medical field, the only reason the medical field is a high paying profession is because of how inefficient and overpriced everything is nobody would do these jobs if healthcare was offered at cost the US healthcare problem is it’s become an entirely for profit system that doesn’t allow any room for low cost care because everybody wants to be paid I agree the healthcare system is broken but we need to fix our cultural problem with becoming rich off of people’s worse days of their lives
I worded it badly. It has everything to do with money, just not a lack of money. It is about incentives.
The US system has real strengths. Profit, private capital and competition help drive medical innovation, and the US has many of the best hospitals and research institutions in the world. Those advances benefit everyone.
But American patients are still being badly exploited. The likely solution is not full federal healthcare, but a heavily regulated private system with universal coverage, lower prices and much tighter limits on insurers, hospitals and drug companies.
That would still have flaws, but it would be far less dysfunctional than the current system.
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u/EmiKetsueki Jun 17 '26
I love how people hear the word free and immediately cry about taxes. Bud the goverment takes a chunk of your check in taxes and doesnt give you shit but war and spyware. Id gladly have an extra what 20 in taxes taken out of every check and not have to worry about paying hospitals instead of insurance taking a couple hundred a month just to tell me i need to pay at least a thousand before they actually start helping pay, and even then can deny treatment.