S.T.A.G.E. said:
Kantor said:
haxxiy said:
Medical care is so overpriced on the USA my aunt once considered opening an agency on Orlando in order to bring people to Brazil to start their treatment / have their surgery on private clinics here. Hell, for a single check-up it is cheaper to pay an extra $1000 for the flight.
Solution: kill all your physicists and import new ones from India. Surely it would ruin less lives in the end. |
The quality of care in the USA is pretty much the best in the world if you can pay.
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You can get great healthcare in many countries as long as you're willing to pay. Socialized medical care is the alternative for the majority elsewhere, thats all. America is just the country a medical doctor can go to if they want to buy a boat and two houses.
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The very word "socialised" is poisonous to Americans, so "universal" is probably a better term to use, though it can mean multiple things.
The thing about national health insurance is that either you force everyone to pay in, in which case if you want high quality care you need to pay for insurance twice, or you allow people to opt out, in which case it can't be funded because the wealthy who provide most of the funding opt out and get private health insurance.
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