| gtaguidelng said: Because others pay less. |
This.
Thanks to decades of propaganda and big company lobbies, people don't get that for a proper health system everyone has to pay for it. But since in the US taxes are the worst thing that could possibly exist and the idiotic decision to leave healthcare up to the states despite it being a nationwide issue nothing will ever work.
I pay 7.5% of my salary for health insurance alone and my employer has to match what I pay. That way everyone including companies pay their fair share. That means in the past year alone I paid several thousands of my hard earned money without even taking advantage of my insurance once. This wouldn't even be possible in the US because for some reason, over there "socialism" is a curse word.
To add to that, greed in the medical industry is rampant because they don't have to take it up with big insurance companies but just deal with the patients directly who have no way of fighting back because their life literally depends on it. It's really disgusting and inhumane.
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