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Or people just pay for healthcare themselves, like every other consumer service on Earth.
by Aaronontheweb 16y ago
Or people just pay for healthcare themselves, like every other consumer service on Earth.
- mkramlich 16y agoSpoken like someone who has never had a parent have a health emergency and then get a bill for $200k for the hospital's services. Go free market! Yay capitalism! Every man, woman and child for themselves! Especially those little old ladies. If they can't afford to pay for a health service to save their life, that's just too bad. But thankfully every old woman is rich, or has rich children.
- abalashov 16y agoNow, that's just unreasonable. Crazy figures like $200,000 are accounted for by the nightmarish public-private kleptocracy we have here. I challenge you to find someone who pays those kinds of princely sums, even for emergencies and very sophisticated procedures, in one of the numerous countries that has neither a socialised healthcare system, nor the catastrophe we have here in the US. In those places, people just go to the doctor and pay a basically affordable sum out of pocket.
- mkramlich 16y agoWe're in agreement actually. I was actually talking about specific and real cases that happen here in the US. Whereas in many Western European countries one doesn't have to worry about being handed some insanely high medical bill when a health emergency occurs. Their systems work more like how traditional insurance should. You pay more when things are going along normally, but when the shit hits the fan health-wise, you are neither denied medical care or handed a bill so high it wipes you out or have to spend the rest of your life paying. You get the care your body needs and don't have to worry about becoming financially devastated.