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I heard Bernie Sanders on NPR talking up single payer--he only touts the positives while completely ignoring the huge increase in taxes that will be required to
by justadeveloper2 9y ago
I heard Bernie Sanders on NPR talking up single payer--he only touts the positives while completely ignoring the huge increase in taxes that will be required to pay for it. I think of Europe and slowly failing because of their socialism and when there isn't anymore wealth to extract from people to keep it all going, it will fail awesomely fast, just like these schemes always do in the end. So simply observing a place at a point in time does not inform you about the total story. The US has enough socialism going without nationalizing healthcare. I don't have any answers, but sentencing my children to a lifetime of debt slavery is certainly not the answer.
- icebraining 9y agoReminder: the US already spends more public money on healthcare as a percentage of GDP than Belgium, the UK, Switzerland, Finland, Canada and many others. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.PUBL.ZS?year_high_desc=true http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.PUBL.ZS?year_high... You don't pay less taxes than many Europeans. You just get a worse deal from them.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoThey've had universal healthcare since what...the 50s? And the countries seem to have only gotten richer much then. Let me know when they start declining, they are nowhere near failure yet. The USA has already socialized 40-50% of its healthcare through the VA and Medicare/Medicaid. We also spend a lot more on healthcare and get worse results than other countries with pure universal systems, so you can't say this is about "saving money."