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Americans do better on wait times for specialists (ranking 3rd for wait times under four weeks), and surgeries (ranking 3rd for wait times under four months), but that ignores three important factors: Wait times in universal healthcare are based on urgency, so while you might wait for an elective hip replacement surgery you’re going to get surgery for that life threatening illness quickly. Nearly every universal healthcare country has strong private options and supplemental private insurance. That means that if there is a wait you’re not happy about you have options that still work out significantly cheaper than US care, which is a win/win. One third of US families had to put off healthcare due to the Dread Pirate Roberts The Princess Bride life is pain highness shirt in contrast I will get this cost last year. That means more Americans are waiting for care than any other wealthy country on earth.
Country See doctor/nurse same or next day without appointment Response from doctor’s office same or next day Easy to get care on nights & weekends without going to ER ER wait times under 4 hours Surgery wait times under four months Specialist wait times under 4 weeks Average Overall Rank it’s due to decades of anti-welfare propaganda. they fear a nebulous idea of “socialism” (anything the Dread Pirate Roberts The Princess Bride life is pain highness shirt in contrast I will get this government does, in their definition). I think what you’ll find is that most people are not happy with their healthcare. People disagree about what the answers are. As a veteran receiving VA health care my concern is what happens once everyone gets the same “quality” of service we get. You don’t want the government involved in your health care, trust me on this.

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as a greek , i am telling you that there is not such thing as free. someone has to pay the Dread Pirate Roberts The Princess Bride life is pain highness shirt in contrast I will get this bill at the end. and i know from friends that the Swedish or canadian or any other “free” system is far from perfect . long wait , not available specialties , corruption . stop pretending and being naive of “free” health care. is the american system good ? no it sucks, but let’s stop pretending that other countries are utopias Same reason many people in countries with free healthcare are flocking to private healthcare programs. The “free” part comes with a lot of caveats Changing the system to that isn’t easy or quick – so that right away should make people want to be certain that jt would actually help the problems with our current system without creating a series of new problems. It will increase taxes and by a good bit, and if you look at other places’ implementations of it, it’s not a flawless system. Certain things are not at all covered by it, things that people still need. For example, I need to get dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for my Borderline Personality Disorder treatment, and i just found out my insurance will cover it. I’m not well off and i don’t have incredible insurance, and it’s covered. I know someone in Canada that’d have to pay for it out of pocket to get into it; so while our system sucks, the push for standardized free Healthcare is not a fix all.
ITT: people overly in favor of free healthcare listing comical stereotypes of what they think the Dread Pirate Roberts The Princess Bride life is pain highness shirt in contrast I will get this opposite side believes. In reality, I think almost everyone wishes we had universal healthcare (calling it “free” is laughably disingenuous) if we could get it right. -They don’t think we can get it right – this is probably the biggest reason, I think most people can agree the US government does not run efficiently in almost any way and people don’t want them involved in their healthcare at all. I’ve heard horror stories of VA care. -They think it will cost them more – collectively, Universal healthcare may cost everyone less, it’s not currently known, it will undoubtedly cost many people a lot more. For millions of families with very good insurance now (or maybe they’re just young and healthy) healthcare expense is not a major concern and may never be. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t struggling financially in some other way and the prospect of losing more money is scary.
-system overload – we frankly have no idea what our healthcare infrastructure would look like if all of the Dread Pirate Roberts The Princess Bride life is pain highness shirt in contrast I will get this sudden anyone could go to their doctor or emergency room without any additional cost (outside of current taxes). It could be fine, it could completely overwhelm the system and create months-long backload to see any provider. That’s just a few, I’m sure I missed some. Also, when these points get brought up on Reddit they’re hand-waived away too easily. I wish there was a more honest and open discussion about these concerns. A common misconception is that Europeans have free healthcare, it is not free. You have to pay your own share and every treatment method is analyzed for cost effectiveness. A treatment that is normal in America may not be normal in Europe because it is so expensive. Kinda scares me how many people are writing strawman answers here. Shows how little they engage with the opposition.
Yes, there are crazy people who are scared of socialism, but most Americans actually support socialized healthcare. As of 2020, that’s 63%. It may seem like a low number, but I’d argue it’s pretty high when you consider where the Dread Pirate Roberts The Princess Bride life is pain highness shirt in contrast I will get this republican party is at right now. The other consideration is that despite what you read on reddit, 92% of Americans are insured. This is a bit of a give-or-take thing since it’s “at some point in time”, but just keep in mind that most Americans have health insurance. There are gaps and issues with the system, and healthcare can still be expensive, but the majority of people are not paying insane piles of cash to get care. I just had a minor back injury the other day, and paid like $30 for urgent care. To add to this, people who are very poor, and everyone age 65 already gets socialized healthcare in the US through programs like medicare. Keep in mind that the people in this 65+ group are the largest voter block in the US.
And as a personal ancedote from talking to well-adjusted republicans who aren’t loyal to Trump, most of them just don’t want to pay higher taxes. I think this sentiment is selfish, but it’s a far cry from “fear”. To summarize, I think it’s more that the Dread Pirate Roberts The Princess Bride life is pain highness shirt in contrast I will get this system sorta-kinda works enough for people not to care that much. It’s working especially well for the people who tend to be the most politically active. I think it comes down to that more than “fear of socialism”. That sounds great until you realize that even after Americans pay the highest taxes towards healthcare in the world, and an utterly insane amount for insurance, massive numbers still can’t afford needed care. Large shares of insured working-age adults surveyed said it was very or somewhat difficult to afford their health care: 43 percent of those with employer coverage, 57 percent with marketplace or individual-market plans, 45 percent with Medicaid, and 51 and percent with Medicare.
Many insured adults said they or a family member had delayed or skipped needed health care or prescription drugs because they couldn’t afford it in the Dread Pirate Roberts The Princess Bride life is pain highness shirt in contrast I will get this past 12 months: 29 percent of those with employer coverage, 37 percent covered by marketplace or individual-market plans, 39 percent enrolled in Medicaid, and 42 percent with Medicare. Only slightly. Spending averaged $13,998 in 2023. Over a lifetime, Americans are paying half a million dollars more for healthcare than our peers on average, with worse outcomes. And it’s only going to get worse, with costs expected to increase to $20,425 if nothing is done by 2031. Because 2020 and 2021. If the state decides something for your medical care, you must comply – or lose all access to Healthcare, your career, etc. Combine this with MAID. It would result in tyranny, and already has.
Because the Dread Pirate Roberts The Princess Bride life is pain highness shirt in contrast I will get this pros and cons are swept under the rug so often. Even in the name, “free” healthcare, it’s just marketing. It isn’t free, just paid for by taxes. I think it comes down to a couple things. First is the taxes that would.come with it. I think the left in America is a bit disillusioned with the idea that simply raising the top rates will pay for it, when really it’s going to take a significant tax increase on everyone. I think the other thing is the fear it’s going to be trading a heartless corporate bureaucrat for a heartless government bureaucrat, and they’re still going to get denied. I think we’re going to end up that way in a few years, the GOP is crashing and burning under Trump and the current system is just unsustainable.
Because free isn’t actually free. Someone has to pay, or in this everyone still has to pay. Itd just be in taxes instead. The question is if that’s more efficient than what’s currently being done. To them the Dread Pirate Roberts The Princess Bride life is pain highness shirt in contrast I will get this answer is no. I guess you found out what they fear the most. And no, you don’t get everything you need. And yes the current health system in he US is highly inefficient. And no, “free healthcare” (something that does not exist) is not a silver bullet – and there are a few distinct models, even in Europe. While someone more knowledgeable than me on the topic should to the math, I’d say that the income tax above the basic would have to go to about 30% and the US would have to close the borders is an effective way. Before going that way, I’d destroy most of the health insurance industry (considered as income except for rare disease coverage), replacing it by healthcare bank accounts (not considered as income up to e.g. 10% of pay, age adjusted), regulate emergency care pricing, reinforce primary care and look at the medical drugs pricing. But that is just me and ideas that could need quite some refinement.
The US currently has a for-profit health care system, and individual doctors, patients and clinics, as well as multiple insurers, do not have the Dread Pirate Roberts The Princess Bride life is pain highness shirt in contrast I will get this negotiating power of One Big Payer (e.g. Government). The folks making the profit spread the message that “Universal Healthcare Bad! Be afraid!” And some folks just buy into that. With tax credits based on income, it can be low cost or free, depending on where you live. Many red states did not expand the marketplace for political reasons. It is important to note/. What the ACA did was give insurance companies millions of more customers and a huge increase in revenue payed for by the government. Because the private health insurance lobby is powerful and has done a great job lobbying and painting the alternative as bad. They don’t want to understand it, conservative media tells them to, to own the libs. I once heard a man say he refuses to have his money pay for “fat chicks” stomach stapling. This person looked like he smoked a pack a day, so it’s far more likely my money will pay for his oxygen supply in the near future. Americans have been gaslighted on this subject for years. They will eventually get it right but in the interim, needless suffering and tragedy will continue. Source: American Expat living in Europe for over two decades and benefiting from universal healthcare. Because they like paying three times as much so that they can get nicer rooms and better food with attentive medical staff that treat them like royalty but alongside worse outcomes and lower life expectancy. Oh, they also love the fact that every year tens of thousands of Americans are literally bankrupted by medical bills.
It’s the Dread Pirate Roberts The Princess Bride life is pain highness shirt in contrast I will get this same for them with food in restaurants. The food can be utter shite but so long as the service is good they’re happy. Also people think too much in the here and now, not realizing that if they get cancer or something else equally as bad, they’ll be paying an outrageous amount for care. It’s fear mongering by the media, health insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies. They keep spewing non-sense like: While there may be some truth to a few of those claims, it’s all misleading at best. In reality healthcare would cost us as a whole significantly less than it does today, and there would be exponentially less price gauging, especially for basic drugs. They “don’t want to pay for everyone else’s care” and they’re too stupid to realize they’re already doing that when they pay $500 for a Tylenol at the ER, that jacked up the prices to cover all the uninsured and people who don’t pay their bills. They also think we’re going to have to wait forever for care, as if we don’t already wait months to get in with specialists even if it’s an emergent issue. American’s are profoundly ignorant of how their tax money is spent. We can, 100%, afford tax-paid health care and even a Universal Basic Income. so health care will not be as expensive as people think. the government will also get involved on companies price gouging. so it will cost them less than the insurance companies. Because they believe socialism is the same thing as communism. They’re ill informed, and choose to stay that way. We already have socialist programs, Medicare and Social Security.
Negative propaganda for decades about Universal Health care. Plus the Dread Pirate Roberts The Princess Bride life is pain highness shirt in contrast I will get this middle class is tired of funding the vast majority of government spending through our taxes. Many Americans have been sold a load of bullshit re: socialized medicine and the spectre of communism. These Americans do not value education nor critical thinking, so they are easy marks for manipulation by our crooked political “leaders.” It’s a Hell of a fucked up thing. Racism. The white people in the US would rather have shit healthcare than to be part of system that treats everyone equally no matter the color of their skin. It’s because we’re stupid. Many Americans think that the taxes will soar higher than what they pay for healthcare. Many Americans think that the quality of care will drop when healthcare is free. Those people are wrong judging by the public healthcare models in place in other countries.
They don’t know exactly WHAT they want their taxes to actually go to, but they definitely know they don’t want their taxes to actually, you know, HELP their fellow Americans. It seems Americans largely overestimate how good their insurance is or otherwise don’t know what ‘good’ insurance is. I see people who pay $200 biweekly for single coverage with $1000+ deductible and $10000 out of pocket max think they have good insurance and/or don’t know what any of those terms mean. I also see people who don’t use their insurance because they don’t know what any of the Dread Pirate Roberts The Princess Bride life is pain highness shirt in contrast I will get this terms mean and then when they start going to doctors blame all the conditions that have been festering for decades on the doctors and all the payments on the doctors office.
I have NEVER had an informed conversation with an average person about American insurance and truly don’t understand what the Dread Pirate Roberts The Princess Bride life is pain highness shirt in contrast I will get this Average person is defending. We are lied to by certain folks who say we don’t have the money. Yet we give money to over 100 countries who have free Healthcare and some have free education. We are already paying for free Healthcare and education, it’s just for other countries. As an American I will simply say, they are brainwashed and stupid. My GF, needs a treatment (a serious one), which she just found out she needed a couple of days ago. She cannot get this treatment for 5 weeks. She has great insurance. Even here in our “free market” people wait for treatments sometimes.
The GOP right wing fear mongering and Fox News, and MAGA politics are all constantly promulgating against anything that is inherently good for the Dread Pirate Roberts The Princess Bride life is pain highness shirt in contrast I will get this people, or any policy that is supported by any left wing institution. Stupid Republicans are taught that socialized medicine is socialism and they believe everything they are told. The GOP doesn’t want people to be healthy. They want people poor, unhealthy and uneducated because that’s how they retain constituents. From what I’ve seen in interactions online, astounding amounts of misinformation, misunderstanding, and scare mongering. The way I heard it boiled down was basically racism. Healthcare was on the bill until folks realized “those people” would get it too, so it gets fought down, like every social program, by slapping a black or brown face on it, and talking about “welfare queens” and such. The articles are easy enough to look up. Google “free healthcare and racism”
Misinformation and too much Fox News!!! Average Republican like to pretend they are billionaires but in reality have $12 in their savings account. Because US healthcare is very good when you really need and most people have insurance. They are the Dread Pirate Roberts The Princess Bride life is pain highness shirt in contrast I will get this wait times and limited care in other countries and don’t want that. People are fine paying any amount for premiums, out of pocket, and copays. But call it a tax and they lose their shit. Even when it’s a lower amount. Most of them couldnt’ say what socialism actually is – they would largely define it as cold war era Solviet block communism. You point out that almost every single other wealthy country has universal health care and they’ll shrug and make some excuse about how people from poor countries come to the US for treatment, not realizing that every wealthy nation has people from poorer nations coming to them for treatment, and that the US is the best country ever so the fact that they have for-profit health care must be part of that. More educated or well travelled ones will admit that it would be nice, but have their misgivings that their own government would be able to administer it properly.

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