| areason said: I'm not sure how the system works in America, but generally speaking if you have been insured all of your life then you can continue working with that company as you already gave it (indirectly) enough money to cover your costs. Universal healthcare is rationing, supply is limited, doctors get badly paid (which results in lower quality healthcare), and overall it is an unnecessary burden on our budget. Goverment based healthcare will not work to keep prices as low as possible, they will simply put that on the taxpayer. And at the end of the day people will get taxed for it. I don't see how conservatives or abortions fall into this. Society is falling in debt due to it's oldest population (France,Uk,US). Things like social security and pensions are outdated and flawed systems which do not get funded by the individuals history of paying taxes but by current tax payers. The US goverment doesn't have the budget to pay for universal healthcare. Personally i would go for a private system, but with medicare on the side in order to help the less fortunate. |
I don't really know how it works in the US either. From the website I found it seems your rates go up as you get older
Health Insurance rates go up as a policyholder gets older
https://www.valuepenguin.com/how-age-affects-health-insurance-costs
And that's with the ACA in effect, so that it's capped at 300% for 64 and older. (stopping that $1700 a month I found from 2011 for 85+)
As for the bolded, costs are lower in countries with universal healthcare. And doesn't medicare get put on the tax payer as well? It seems the privatized system costs more to insurance holders, and to the tax payer because of medicare having to go along with that high cost system.
From Google
The average income after expenses, in U.S. dollars, for an orthopedic surgeon in the U.S. was $442,450, compared to $208,000 in Canada. Do you think that $208k a year is badly paid and Canadian surgeons provide lower quality healthcare? Well perhaps, since the smart ones move to the US after receiving their education here.
