That’s an astonishingly ignorant statement that assumes health insurance provides any care, or that insurance is the only way for people to afford care. Willfully ignorant, perhaps, because anyone who has paid attention over the last decade would have heard this discussed if they weren’t living under a rock.
Insurances are middlemen extracting money from you on the chance you might get ill or need care, and then decide whether or not your illness is worth the trouble of giving you any of your own money back to cover it.
We did fine without widespread medical insurance 50 years ago. Many countries do fine with single-payer care - in fact most of them besides the US do. And many of those countries have better overall health than Americans do and pay less to enjoy it.
Oh but the thing is I have gotten terribly sick before, and I’ve seen a doctor and I got all the treatment I needed because I have good coverage. If I had to pay for everything on my own? I’d still have gone in to see a doctor if it meant debt. If they denied me treatment I’d set up my estate to sue them in the case of my death.
Our system sucks. But it can get a lot worse, very quickly.
You’re spending a lot of time trying to defend that it could be worse when everyone is saying it needs to be better. You’re trying to defend the status quo on the ground that no coverage would be worse when everyone else is saying the rest of the civilized world has examples doing much better
That’s an astonishingly ignorant statement that assumes health insurance provides any care, or that insurance is the only way for people to afford care. Willfully ignorant, perhaps, because anyone who has paid attention over the last decade would have heard this discussed if they weren’t living under a rock.
Insurances are middlemen extracting money from you on the chance you might get ill or need care, and then decide whether or not your illness is worth the trouble of giving you any of your own money back to cover it.
We did fine without widespread medical insurance 50 years ago. Many countries do fine with single-payer care - in fact most of them besides the US do. And many of those countries have better overall health than Americans do and pay less to enjoy it.
I hope you take your chances
Enjoy losing your job and health care when you get genuinely ill.
Oh but the thing is I have gotten terribly sick before, and I’ve seen a doctor and I got all the treatment I needed because I have good coverage. If I had to pay for everything on my own? I’d still have gone in to see a doctor if it meant debt. If they denied me treatment I’d set up my estate to sue them in the case of my death.
Our system sucks. But it can get a lot worse, very quickly.
Really fixated on the absurd take that the only way to have care is out of pocket at American health care costs? You’re a deliberate fool. Blocked.
Boy these words you’re shoving in my mouth sure taste funny.
You’re spending a lot of time trying to defend that it could be worse when everyone is saying it needs to be better. You’re trying to defend the status quo on the ground that no coverage would be worse when everyone else is saying the rest of the civilized world has examples doing much better
I am presenting actual real plans to make it better while others plan to actively cause harm to each other.