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Interestingly enough, as a non American poster I find it amusing with the US posters having predominantly this type of selfish response. Every time healthcare
by quickben 10y ago
Interestingly enough, as a non American poster I find it amusing with the US posters having predominantly this type of selfish response.
Every time healthcare is discussed on reddit, slashdot, etc, most of the people commenting on us healthcare debate it in the form of : "not with my hard earned money, you lazy commies, why don't you start working".
What's interesting is that it isn't their fault.
From the outside, the system looks a bit rigged against the common person, and the dog eat dog mentality is propagandized heavily.
I sometimes wish that our fellow Americans experience better, see that it actually works, and engage more against the corrupt system that milks them, instead of the rest of the fellow human beings.
What amazes me though, is that HN seems a decent place today for a discussion like this one.
- dragonwriter 10y agoThe amazing part is that Americans broken, non-universal, mostly-private but largely-public system spends more taxpayer money (per capita, for sure, but even as a share of GDP) than some countries that provide universal, mostly-to-entirely public, healthcare. So it's not even saving your tax money to avoid universal coverage.
- DanBC 10y agoHere's a cite for that: http://visual.ons.gov.uk/how-does-uk-healthcare-spending-compare-internationally/ http://visual.ons.gov.uk/how-does-uk-healthcare-spending-com... > Despite less than half of the USA’s total healthcare expenditure coming from government expenditure or compulsory insurance schemes, it still spends more per person on these financing schemes than the UK- £3,111 in the USA in 2014, compared with £2,210 in the UK. In the USA spending on privately-funded healthcare is over five times more per person than in the UK.