I believe we europeans can talk about healthcare issues way better than any american can ever hope to. Tip: it's bad. For a fraction of what you pay the state for healthcare i have better assistance through my health insurance.
We are more qualified? What? For most of my life, I never wasted a single thought on health insurance. My biggest concern was forgetting to bring my insurance card when I go the doctor. Still don't waste a lot of thought thinking about it, really. And I don't even know what it's like to live without.
Meanwhile, most Americans are more or less tied to an employer for their insurance and probably know all too well what it's like to fear personal bankruptcy should they need expensive treatment (a growing list, counterintuitively).
I feel like i'm in a monthly bankrupcy for something i don't use because when I need it to check ANYTHING i'd rather do it with my insurance.
Comparison:
"Hey, I have a problem with my elbow"
Insurance:
I can call about a hundred of doctors for the earliest appointment.
I will get derived to have a MRI in about 2 days
In a week i'll know.
Public:
get an appointment to the GP, which might take a couple days to have available schedule
get derived on a 2 week frame window to see the specialist, which you cannot get a second opinion on.
get derived (if the specialist you have been assigned to see DECIDES it) to have a MRI, which will take longer time to schedule too, possibly adding another week.
In a month maybe i'll have it. Bonus round: this is real. A drug addict gets given a date earlier than me just in case he might do something bad if he doesn't get medical assistance. I just hate this warped socialist idea where you're rewarded for poor choices in your life.
The employer pays about 1300 for you to earn a 1000€ salary, so 300 are being deducted for unemployment, healthcare and retirement (lmfao there's no way my generation is gonna have retirement). The system is so deplorable that in the case you get a cancer that cripples you enough not to be able to work, you're essentially fucked. So tell me again, how is public healthcare so awesome that private companies that operate with the laws of supply and demand and fair market. Public means you don't have a choice, and that's always the worst kind of choice.
I read somewhere that 30% of americans couldn't afford insurance and that's why "obamacare" would be good. Then it resulted in about 33% of the american workers losing their insurance coverage due to pricing changes. The use of fear of a personal bankrupcy if "everything goes wrong" shouldn't warrant a goverment to steal from you "for the greater good". It's a way to generalize everything like if it was an abstract matter, a way to fund something that will never really help you or others. Want to change how insurances operate maybe? Maybe put a ceiling to what basic coverage should amount to? There are plenty of things they could regulate to make it happen in a more efficient manner.
