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Can someone explain the benefits of a US-style healthcare system vs nationalised tax funded healthcare? All I see from threads like this is a lot of Americans

• kmicklas 10y ago
  > Can someone explain the benefits of a US-style healthcare system vs nationalised tax funded healthcare? None. > I see from threads like this is a lot of Americans bickering over their own healthcare, and as an outsider I don't really know how how it works, and why everyone is so invested in how it works now. Because actual change is near impossible these days. (Ultimately this is largely a result of flaws in our electoral system. Most notably, gerrymandering gives Republicans a near permanent lock on the House.) > What happens if you don't have insurance? You die. > To me any system where you make sick people pay more than rich people seems bonkers no? Republican congressmen are bonkers and/or evil. > If most people's employers already pay it on their behalf, isn't it a business tax already? That's a large part of the problem. It got tied to employment in during WWII when the government mandated salary caps for some industries so firms competed on benefits. I think almost everyone agrees this is bad but it's impossible to change because of gridlock.