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US$150 a month for family of three, to cover if I want to go private and be served immediately. Otherwise I can go to our public healthcare system which is goo
by indemnity 9y ago
US$150 a month for family of three, to cover if I want to go private and be served immediately.
Otherwise I can go to our public healthcare system which is good and pretty much free but may have a waiting period for not so urgent care.
I don’t know why some Americans hate this. It’s not either/or. We have both public and private healthcare, use both, and our taxes are not insane to pay for it (33% income tax at top tier).
Example: Paid all of US$50 for all the medical scans and pre-checks over 9 months, birth and 3 day hospital care for my recently born son. Parking at the hospital over those 3 days was more.
However: Dental care after 18 is not free, and is closest to the American system. And it is also insanely expensive here. Looking at a few grand for basic procedures.
Disclaimer: New Zealand.
- seem_2211 9y agoBut we don't have a military industrial complex to feed. Also, New Zealand is laughably straightforward in terms of governing structure. Hard to have too much duplication (and easy to hit economies of scale) when there's only one Police Force for example. In the US there's the Federal, and the State, and the Municipal level. All with monster bureaucracies. Observations: Also Kiwi, but live in 'Murica.