The Coming Obamacare Shock for 170 Million Americans

[Kasz216]

Pemalite said:

DerpSandwich said:
Now come tax season I'll have to pay a bunch of money because it's still cheaper than signing up for healthcare. I'm going to be fined for not partaking in a third-party service that affects literally no one's physical well-being but my own.

Thanks so much to everyone who voted for this guy. I really appreciate it.

The irony is, from various studies the USA has the worst health care and the highest cost out of all of the worlds highly developed countries, it's probably cheaper to jump on a plane and go overseas than deal with the USA's healthcare system at times, you get a free holiday to boot! :P

Hopefully you guys catch up with the rest of the world and go with Universal healthcare, or... A dual healthcare system where if you are under an income tax threshhold you are on public, over that, you either pay additional tax or go private. (I.E. You have still have a choice.)

Not actually... no.  

More expensive... yes.  Worse... no.

 

Because said studies, don't actually look at the results of heatlhcare and instead use things like life expectancy  while not accounting for things like teen pregnancy, fatal inujuries, crime, poverty.  They just basically take a few nationmaster like stats and run a regression.   It's lazy lazy work.

 

Just to give an example of when you factor in just one of those factors...  (By replacing everyones fatal injuries with an average rate.)

When you've got way more young people in the US getting murdered at 20, it's pretty obvious our life expectancy will be lower.

Yet that doesn't really reflect on our healthcare system.  Not that 2 years here or there is exactly a huge statiscal point anyway.

 

Hell, you've got more indepth research that suggests that our government healthcare system is worse then not having insurance. 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/03/02/why-medicaid-is-a-humanitarian-catastrophe/

The article is a bit senationalist, but it runs off some of the studies in it.

 

A switch to universal healthcare, very likely could drag us down to the actual middle of that list.