US Medicare For All Bill as good as dead now?

[Megiddo]

fatslob-:O said:

Megiddo said:
Not sure why Singapore keeps getting brought up, but it's an example of extremely efficient government regulated healthcare. The government controls all pricing and subsidizes 80-90% of all medical costs for everyone. It is government controlled universal healthcare, which is something that think you're supposed to be arguing against fatslob, so Singapore is just yet another example of how much better the US healthcare system could be with government controlled cost measures instead of allowing corporations to grossly profit off of sick and dying people.

Not true, the state only funds one fourth of the medical costs per capita. The rest is paid for by the citizens themselves but do try explaining yourself why somehow countries with "universal healthcare" has yet to catch up in value with the likes of Singapore which is mainly privately funded ...

I'm not sure why you put universal healthcare in quotation marks. Healthcare is universal in Singapore. It's just not a nationalized system (like nearly all countries with universal healthcare). The main objective is to get the government to control healthcare costs instead of private interests. In Singapore all prices are controlled directly by the government, whether it's a public or private medical practice, both are entirely regulated by the government, which keeps costs low and the care efficient.

Last edited by Megiddo - on 09 October 2018