Why are Americans against universal Healthcare?
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Taxes im guessing
That's only a very tiny part of what's wrong with the entire concept.
So I'll be honest I'm not really well educated on this topic. But from my understanding wouldn't it mean that everyone gets free shitty healthcare? People would no longer have an option to get it from their employer anymore right?
Compulsion is a system is evil. Compulsion to pay for a system is evil. You also end up with a system run by psychopaths that want to euthanize anyone having anything more serious than the sniffles, and even that might call for a good coerced suicide.
Yea, let's take the worst example and pretend the whole system is like this
I've lived it. In the US. Dealing with the VA. (veteran's affairs)
It's disgusting, demoralizing, dehumanizing, denigrating. THAT is the system we'd end up with.
No. That's the system we'd start with. And then it would get worse.
I live in Bulgaria (south eastern Europe). The health care system here isn't the greatest also. But if I break my leg (God forbid) I would get treated and I wouldn't have to pay thousands upon thousands of $ for it.
They have a history of taking care of their own affairs without being "looked after", those that will have to pay for it through taxes hate it and anything slightly socialist is viewed as hard-core communism.
The issue is the kind of healthcare we *can* provide is very expensive and resource intensive, and there are simply too many people who need it.
So how do you decide who gets the lifesaving premium treatment and who doesn't?
Universal healthcare will always provide a base level of service, it can't provide the best service to everyone because it's just not possible. The more you add to it, the more expensive and unsustainable it becomes. The less it offers, the more people don't like it. Places that try to make it *the only choice* are completely on the wrong path because of this.
It's a hard one to get right, but I think there does need to be a base level of healthcare available to everyone. People just need to understand that it won't be the best and money will always still play a part in determining who gets access to what.
Well put. I don't know why ppl leave this stuff out on this topic