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"Have health insurance" is not comparable with "is covered by universal health care" without a lot of clarification. 1. It's dependent on employment. 2. It co
by jahaja 6y ago
"Have health insurance" is not comparable with "is covered by universal health care" without a lot of clarification.
1. It's dependent on employment.
2. It comes with various forms of limits, out of pocket payments, and other caveats.
3. It comes with a profit motive for the insurance company to decline coverage.
etc
So fundamentally, "Am I under the threat of financial ruin if I were to get ill?" is still very much alive even with health insurance.
- tptacek 6y agoAll health care systems regardless of payer structure have a financial motive to decline coverage.
- jahaja 6y agoYes, but vastly different. Universal health care certainly won't come with a dozen pages of fine-print. It doesn't have pricing levels either. You won't hear: "Oh, you should've chosen our premium plan for that!".
- tptacek 6y agoThat's true. The tradeoffs are different. There will be procedures you can't readily get, and more complexity in getting others. Some of those are procedures you shouldn't be getting in the first place. You'll have far less control over your own care, but most people weren't taking advantage of that control in the first place.
- jahaja 6y ago"Far less control over your own care" implies a very small, and wealthy, subset of the population.