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Disaster compared to what? The insane number of medical bankruptcies in the United States?
by baddox 8y ago
Disaster compared to what? The insane number of medical bankruptcies in the United States?
- olivermarks 8y agoIt's worth noting that the modern US usage of the term 'socialized medicine' was invented, amplified and promoted by a pr firm for the for-profit medical insurance industry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialized_medicine#History_of_term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialized_medicine#History_of...
- TomMckenny 8y agoNo surprise really, the word "socialism" has been used to attack any pro consumer / pro employee policies since the first red scare 100 years ago. Indeed up to the '70s, even civil rights was painted as "commie".
- jmalicki 8y agoCompared to dying because treatment a private health insurer pays for would simply be denied, as other payers are prohibited. Why would you want to make medicare supplemental coverage illegal, or forced to be completely separate, which is a characteristic of single-payer health care (as opposed to multiple payer universal health care coverage)?
- baddox 8y agoAFAIK the UK has optional supplemental health care, and Canada has optional supplemental plans for things not covered by the public plan.
- qyv 8y agoThat is not how public healthcare works in Canada at all.
- pjc50 8y agoSupplementary coverage is perfectly legal in the UK, I don't know why people think it isn't. Maybe there's a disinformation campaign.