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So socialised medicine works?

• sickofparadox 4y ago
  If by "socialized medicine" you mean public option health insurance, then yes it does work. I'm willing to bet, though, that the poster you're replying to only received care from privately run hospitals/clinics, so calling it socialized medicine seems misleading.
  • spywaregorilla 4y ago
    US health is socialized in that the public will pay for it if you're willing to game the system like the uncle in this story, plus spin the wheel of chance to see how much you'll how privately anyway. I don't think the uncle here acted maliciously or TRIED to game the system, but that is what happened and that is what will continue to happen with this shitty half implemented system.
  • triceratops 4y ago
    > public option health insurance > calling it socialized medicine seems misleading. Outside of the UK, that is how health care in developed countries is organized. It's either that or some version of Obamacare (regulated, private, with price caps and subsidies) or a combination. American conservatives call them all, without exception, "socialized medicine".
• wincy 4y ago
  Hah, the world is complicated. I feel like me and my family are the worst case scenario in the health care system and it worked… pretty well aside from them wanting to give my daughter too much care she didn’t need. The US basically has socialized medicine that scares naive/“honest”/conscientious middle class people into paying up to subsidize it. I suspect if we passed legislation tomorrow to make the US a single payer system it’d all fall apart. But I suppose we’ve managed to trick the US taxpayers into socializing medicine while letting them pretend we haven’t.
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