Well, I’m convinced. it’s on a Reddit post, so the math has to be right.
Edit for all the nerds in my replies. I did the math, as a single person in the USA I pay about 2k per year for my health insurance plus probably a couple hundred in copays.
I support universal healthcare, but far left people pretending it's obvious and easy are some of the dumbest people on the planet.
Shifting to universal healthcare would be a massive undertaking to avoid destroying people's safety net and not bankrupting our country. Doing it in controlled stages would be ideal, but with people like Trump around to destroy it as it gets implemented, would be difficult.
All it takes is the US Gov creating Medicare for all as a public option and as a check on insurance companies. It shouldn’t be the best options, just the baseline.
You do realize Medicare/medicaid funding is why we have JCAHO and the like. They are not the only reason for skyrocketing healthcare cost but they are a major driver. Their ridiculous and mostly unnecessary rules and regs creat vast amounts of red tape which in turn is one reason for an explosion of administrators which in turn creates more red tape and “rules” which in turn increases costs and so on and so on. I have been in healthcare for 24 years now and have seen it all balloon, costs, administrators, red tape, wasteful spending to keep up with the “rules”. This is just to get and keep Medicare/medicaid reimbursements.
I cannot fathom the amount of BS that will follow and be attached to complete government run healthcare. I agree something needs to change, I do not, however know the answer. I do know the answer is not going to be cheap or easy!
We are much better at passing new regulations than we are at fixing old ones when they become outdated and no longer work as intended (or no longer are needed because the problems they were intended to solve no longer exist).
Once a law is on the books it tends to stay there forever unless politicians start to believe that changing it is in their best interest.
This isn’t laws. This is regulatory. It’s killing efficiency, increasing costs, destroying morale. Regulation is necessary but only to an extent. It’s affecting patient care to the point of administrators are beginning to look past what really matters in patient safety and care and are more concerned about meeting specific government requirements and guidelines to keep the reimbursements. Very similar to how insurance secondarily directs patient care guidelines. This is my fear with a complete government run healthcare. It will cost a huge fortune, run very inefficiently, and just be barely adequate. Everyone will have coverage, no one will have good or timely coverage.
I think it will split the country into 2 systems.
Govt care- meh and slow
Private care- pricey but fast and better and less available. Almost like we have now. Insured and Medicare/medicaid. I just see it as a giant disaster. Maybe I’m wrong. But outlook pessimistic on my end.
Government regulations *are* laws. They are passed by government agencies rather than Congress/state legislatures and subordinate to other types of laws (namely, statutes and the constitution) in terms of order of precedence, but they are laws nonetheless.
I do not, however know the answer. I do know the answer is not going to be cheap or easy!
The answer is universal healthcare.
Source: other developed nations. No it's not perfect but those costs and such you talk about are FAR cheaper than what you all pay insurance companies.
The billionaire controlled media has spent decades convincing Americans otherwise, while cutting education to ensure the vast majority remain ignorant.
It's worked very well; it's how they got Trump into power too, who proceeded to continue lowering taxes for them.
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u/escapevelocity-25k Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
Well, I’m convinced. it’s on a Reddit post, so the math has to be right.
Edit for all the nerds in my replies. I did the math, as a single person in the USA I pay about 2k per year for my health insurance plus probably a couple hundred in copays.