• Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    We have generations of data from countries all over the world with universal healthcare. It costs the people less, undeniably; there’s zero benefit to for-profit private insurance… for people, anyway (not corporations).

    I’m not positive, but I think USA is the last “western nation” without it. So… US taxpayers actually send billions to other nations all over the globe, all of which have better healthcare. Nice.

    Even Mexico has universal healthcare, soon they’ll be trying to end American migration…

    Oh my God, it just dawned on me. Trump was right… Mexico will pay for the wall! Trump’s lowering US citizen’s standard of living severely so that they will have flee over the border by the millions and viola! Wall.

    Brilliant.

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      19 days ago

      My only qualm with it is whenever the Republicans get into office, they will weaken or destroy it. If we didn’t have scumbags in office, and scumbags voting for said scumbags, it would be amazing. Universal healthcare is absolutely the way.

    • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      19 days ago

      Nah, some do dual payer, which is less bad than USA, but still not true universal.

      It’s basically universal healthcare but with a small excess on it, usually something quite low like €100

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      there’s zero benefit to for-profit private insurance… for people, anyway (not corporations

      In germany there are a lot of benefits through. Less waiting-time, broader choice of treatment, better service in hospitals, a room for yourself instead of a shared room, and also a wider choice of places to go. And in the end it’s even cheaper than public health. At least beyond a certain income - threshold. Highly unfair, but…