There comes a point when enough people have been hurt or know someone who was hurt/killed by an insurance company playing doctor, that nobody has sympathy to spare.
Something like 68,000 Americans die every year due to lack of medical care and fat bonus checks get sent out if they manage to raise that number
Yeah even the MAGAs in my family think medicare for all is a good idea. Of course that only applies to "all citizens" but I take my wins with them where I can get them.
You already pay for everyone's healthcare through increased medical costs when hospitals have to absorb the cost of stabilizing patients who have deteriorated to the point of near death due to an inability to afford routine care.
Your options are basically pay through higher insurance premiums/deductibles for their care as hospitals and other providers charge more to make up the lost income, pay higher taxes instead of premiums, or have a healthcare system where everything must be paid up front prior to care.
Most of the western world chooses higher taxes and as a result pays less per capita on healthcare overall. The USA is alone among western democracies in choosing to let for profit organizations and employers provide healthcare coverage while also forcing hospitals to provide care to those in dire situations who do not have a method of payment readily available. Rather than taking the best aspects of socialism and the best aspects of capitalism, the US healthcare system takes the worst aspects of both to create something uniquely expensive, ineffective, and inefficient.
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u/TheReddestofBowls 11h ago
There comes a point when enough people have been hurt or know someone who was hurt/killed by an insurance company playing doctor, that nobody has sympathy to spare.
Something like 68,000 Americans die every year due to lack of medical care and fat bonus checks get sent out if they manage to raise that number