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Why is it ok to force the 60% to pay higher taxes and accept WORSE healthcare so that the 40% get better healtcare for nothing? We already pay to cover our own
by q1w2 4y ago
Why is it ok to force the 60% to pay higher taxes and accept WORSE healthcare so that the 40% get better healtcare for nothing?
We already pay to cover our own family members on our plans. Why are we being forced to now cover everyone else's family?
I'm more likely to move to the adjacent state than pay 15% higher tax rate and literally get LOWER quality care.
- jorblumesea 4y ago1) It's not clear it will be worse, many countries with single insurer/single payer have just as high quality care (Canada) 2) Leaving these people uninsured is not cheaper, you're paying for it already with significant healthcare costs. The same people complaining about the cost of healthcare turn around and deny preventative coverage to people who end up in the ER and you pay for it regardless. 3) It's the right thing to do, ethically, morally and financially (long term) What an incredibly ignorant take, no wonder we don't have any healthcare solutions.
- OrvalWintermute 4y agoMy wife, a practicing surgeon, refuses to work as a wage slave. She already performs a significant amount of her practice as "charity care" where she gets no reimbursement whatsoever. Given that for a fellowship-trained (3) board-certified (2) surgeon the train-up period is measured in ~2+ decades, not 4 years for regular professions. > What an incredibly ignorant take, no wonder we don't have any healthcare solutions Please don't assign false morality to the compensation people expect when their working career is effectively halved due to their extensive training requirements, and their educational bills dwarf by comparison every other profession. The US already subsidizes medical research and bigpharma profits for the entire planet. We're not the freeloaders you're making us out to be.