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and that’s why we don’t want socialized healthcare in the US. because it shouldn’t be other people’s business
by oculusthrift 8y ago
and that’s why we don’t want socialized healthcare in the US. because it shouldn’t be other people’s business
- blincoln 8y agoIn the US, we still make it other people's business. It's just that here, those other people work for insurance companies whose goal is to turn a profit (even if they claim otherwise by getting themselves classified as non-profit organizations), in part by paying out as little as possible to healthcare providers. Yes, it's theoretically possible to pay out of pocket, so one has a "choice", but doing that for e.g. a C-section would bankrupt most of our population. I've lived in a country with socialized medicine. It's not perfect, but at least they don't have a huge chunk of the population walking around with easily-treatable conditions that slowly destroy them because normal people don't get decent health coverage.