Starbucks Billionaire: You Can’t Have Healthcare Or College

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contestgamer said:

Rab said:

You're not wrong in saying many do travel to the US for serious illnesses, the US at the highest level can supply some of the best care, but what really helps the UHC system is the cheaper preventative care option due to people generally in UHC systems visiting their Dr's far more regularly because it's cheaper to do so, this has the knock on effect of people being less seriously sick later on, not needing these expensive later options when health issues get serious because it was left too late 

Basically in a nutshell if your on a UHC you will visit the Dr more because it's cheap and preventing many of your illness getting more serious leading to less people needing the expensive options later

In the current US system, people hold off from visiting their Dr due to higher costs until the illness is more serious, this stimulates spending and research into areas of late/serious health issues, but overall results are lower in health outcomes and life expectancy as seen in World data where the US does poorly in overall health outcomes   

  

hm, never looked at it that way. Makes sense. Can we still have private healthcare options like we do now at the highest level if we have a public option? For people that want fast care/no wait times or just can afford top level care for a serious illness?

Generally there's some private healthcare to supplement public healthcare in the countries that have it. Most of the time the public healthcare gives a high basic coverage and the public ones extend over this by either covering things public healthcare doesn't or not as extensive, or they give you better options, live private hospital rooms, better meals in hospitals, and so on. Most private healthcare companies do a mix of both.

You don't pay very much for the private healthcare either since most is already covered by the public. Generally even with both public healthcare and the best and most expensive private healthcare plan, you're still a ways cheaper than hospitals in the US.

Some countries also have mandatory healthcare travel insurance when traveling to the US, to make sure their inhabitants are covered and don't have to pay the US prices. In most cases, this includes flying you back home to your country on their costs on serious sicknesses or accidents as the transport in an ambulance flight plus treatment in an hospital at home is cheaper than having to cover for the same treatment in the US.