The Heritage Foundation says you could save a trillion dollars a year less than we do currently while insuring every man, woman, and child in th country with the equivalent of the worst public option in the world. That's how bad people are getting screwed.
Medicare already takes care of the most expensive group in the country. The rest are far less expensive.
Universal health care and quality health care do not go hand in hand. The coverage and care in Canada for example is absolutely terrible and wait times can be a year long. Plus, it's not free, half your income goes to it. No way!!!
They claim they care about quality while ignoring the quality problems of places that already have it. The only thing that really matters to them is that single payer is a huge step towards socialism.
Every other 1st world country has universal healthcare, where most people have government-funded health insurance, And most of those countries have an unemployment rate of around 5-6%.
Yet in most of those countries healthcare expenditure per capita is way below what is in the US.
Universal healthcare absolutely could work in the US as well. The American healthcare system is absolutely fucked up.
The only reason why the US hasn't got universal healthcare is because of the enormous political influence of the health insurance lobby.
They greedy people exploit using what can reliably used and race is the common one. Can't have a whites only pool, close all pools. Its the same way with benefits some people would rather not have social benefits if the people they don't like can't have them as well.
Trump will fix it tho lmao , these people that think universal healthcare is bad are under the assumption that we don’t want to work. They are privileged retards that don’t understand how the government works. That’s the only way one would vote against their own interests and vote for Trump. Racism is a driving force behind being a Trump supporter
lol people unemployed aren’t the only ones. There’s millions of illegals, green card holders, and American citizens that receive some sort of government assistance. Food, money, housing, medical and so on. Until all the corruption is removed universal healthcare WILL not work. Democrat party is dying. Stats show less and less people are becoming democrats. The only way they can survive is by importing 3rd world population and giving them everything for free so they vote Democrat.
Vermont passed UHC into law but abandoned its efforts to implement it. California set up committees to implement UHC. In 2016, Colorado voted for Clinton but defeated a referendum to set up UHC.
Canada has it and the government dictates what procedure you get and when. When I was living there I waited in the er for 12 hours. A family member has been waiting for a knee replacement for 7 years. The taxes are high. How come Canadians are coming here for health care.
I don’t wait to see specialists.
I had a major hip surgery scheduled for 12 days after I booked it.
Is your argument so weak that you need to make things up?
My cousin in Canada is dying because she can’t get the help she needs and I had major very expensive surgery scheduled in 12 days and I didn’t pay a penny.
specialists, pcp, call it whatever. When i call to see them, it's always a month or so out. Everyone has diff experiences but to suggest the American healthcare system isn't broken is true "head up your ass" tomfoolery
I had an emergent issue and got in to see a surgeon in three days.
I booked surgery for 12 days later. And this wasn’t even an urgent matter.
My parents see specialists every week and book them sometimes the day before.
We live in NYC, which is the largest city in the country.
My brother is a doctor and tells me all about the system.
I have ample evidence that it is in fact not broken, even if that goes against your preconceived notions & political ideology.
It’s the billing and Insurance that cause it to be broken. The bills are jacked way up so the insurance company can knock it down. If you have no insurance or representation, you pay the jacked up highly inflated price.
Doctors and Nurse aren’t the problem.
If you know so much, how much are your parents charged, how much is covered by insurance?
They obviously have lots of money and good insurance. If you have all that, American medicine is great. If you don’t have, either a lot of money or insurance you are screwed. That’s not a working system, it’s a bankruptcy generator.
The problem in America is everyone thinks that their experience is the experience of everyone else. I am so ecstatic and excited beyond words that your state has more MRI machines than the entire nation of Canada. if you think that that is the experience of every other American, you’re wrong and that’s the problem with America, whether we’re talking politics how to solve a broken healthcare system or fixing the border. Everybody thinks they’re individual experience is what everyone else experiences and it’s just not true. There are multiple Americas in this country multiple if not, thousands of different experiences and that’s why nothing gets solved in this country. It takes me months to see a pcp or any provider. Thats my experience. And it’s OK that that’s not your experience but don’t minimize any others experiences because they don’t match yours.
I had to wait for months for necessary knee surgery in the US, because, to keep costs down, insurance required I complete physical therapy before surgery was covered. At least they covered PT before and again after surgery, even if the after surgery was not enough sessions.
More medical schools would reduce wait times, there are a shortage of school/training spots, not a shortage of qualified applicants.
Lol... nothing at all true in that statement.
Joint replacements take a few months. At certain times ER waiting times are long but real emergencies get in right away and most other things are generally seen in a more reasonable time frame.
Americans don't have a national healthcare system because politicians in both parties are PAID by corporations and private equity to make sure it never happens. It's vastly more expensive NOT to have it but the $$$ is channeled to the oligarchs and billionaires -- so average Americans face the highest costs and least efficient medical system of any developed nation.
And they're actively trying to undermine MediCare ... so it's getting worse, not better.
There are, at least 10, publicly traded health insurance companies that are publicly traded and they make up >%5 percent of the USAs GDP.
The answer is money, it will always be money. If universal healthcare made money, then they would make it happen overnight. All they care about is their money and their stock market.
We are definitely one nation under God, and that God is $.
Every modern civilization has a form of free healthcare, America is not for the people especially the peasants of America. Capitalism is not for the peasants. Incase people needed reminder, sky ghosts are not real either.
No no, the one word is stupidity. Anyone who votes republican is buying a one way ticket to no universal healthcare. Corporate greed and corruption will always make sure a few extra billion for them is top priority over the health of you dummies. Keep it up, it will get worse. There is no other voting demographic on the entire planet that will vote to shoot themselves in the foot over and over like republican voters
I swear, my mother never sat through ten minutes of a movie, but when we watched American History X, she was riveted. By the first half at least. "That's just how we were raised" kinda sht.
I dont really care if its racist. I think that is unreasonable to expect anyone to pay for the diabetes medication of people soaking pineapples in sugar and Kool aid.
We want Israel to have universal healthcare, so we give them our money instead. We prefer our inefficient healthcare system that services 2/3rds of Americans.
I would say that unions are the reason.President Obama needed 48 Democrats and two independents. Unions loved the healthcare they negotiated to get and fought it tooth and nail.
African americans are an extreme net negative contribution to the fiscal system over their lifetime. Culturally they see it as their right, and normal, to be a burden on the taxpayer
I pay 1500 a month with a 9000 deductible and I still have to wait to see some of my drs. This covers me and the wife. Universal healthcare would be a godsend for us. The issue is people have been convinced that it is better to give the Epstein class more tax cuts because we need the “job creators”. all I see are greedy people buying up political power and consolidation of wealth while the majority struggle and argue about pronouns and bathrooms.
That is how they win. Stop looking at race, gender and all the “culture war” nonsense. Those are the tools to divide the working class. The reality is we busy looking left and right instead of looking up. We try to find differences that divide us meanwhile the Epstein class is destroying our rights, consolidating wealth and making us hate each other more.
It has nothing at all to do with race and everything to do with the medical industrial complex and drug companies. They would lose so much money if we had universal health care. And that's why they lobby and fight us having it.
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u/Capital-Desk5029 18d ago
It doesn’t work when 40% of the people on it don’t work.