I was told growing up that I won’t like socialism once I have to start paying taxes. I pay taxes, but would much rather pay way more taxes to have socialism. Including paying for social programs I wouldn’t use like welfare, free tuition etc.
Once I qualified for work pharmacare that was great! But I remember how much it sucked not having any health insurance. Yeah I bootstrapped it, but I’d hope we would grow up as a species and not have to have so much bootstrapping, since there are better ways at this point.
The US system is uniquely bad, not sure why you keep going back to that as the supposed alternative.
There are many countries that have basic government run insurance (Canada for example) that don’t cost an arm and a leg in monthly payments and still cover the most important stuff.
But we’re at the same point then. They cover the basic stuff and the rest is on you. So people with less resources will have to pick between get the other things covered (out of their pocket) or spend that money in healthier lifestyle (and hope to not need the additional insurance).
Your problem is that you want to have less coverage and pay less taxes? Fine, but what would happen if you need healthcare that is not covered by your basic insurance then?
That’s a bit like asking what would happen if you get hit by a lightning. Bad things happen sometimes and that’s life. Can’t have (afford) insurance for everything and neither should you be forced to pay for advanced insurance you don’t want.
The US system is uniquely bad, not sure why you keep going back to that as the supposed alternative.
There are many countries that have basic government run insurance (Canada for example) that don’t cost an arm and a leg in monthly payments and still cover the most important stuff.
But we’re at the same point then. They cover the basic stuff and the rest is on you. So people with less resources will have to pick between get the other things covered (out of their pocket) or spend that money in healthier lifestyle (and hope to not need the additional insurance).
Your problem is that you want to have less coverage and pay less taxes? Fine, but what would happen if you need healthcare that is not covered by your basic insurance then?
That’s a bit like asking what would happen if you get hit by a lightning. Bad things happen sometimes and that’s life. Can’t have (afford) insurance for everything and neither should you be forced to pay for advanced insurance you don’t want.