Chrkeller said:
I am not a fan personally. The US system isn't as expensive as people make it out to be. It is founded in a shared risk system, similar to Universal. The difference is Universal is paid via taxes, while employment pays for the US's shared risk plan. The max out of pocket, on average, is 4-5k. Nobody in the US is paying hundreds of thousands, that is a BS myth (not directed at you) that the media has created. The other point is, when I lived in Europe with Universal, waiting times for a specialist was 6 to 9 months. In the US, yeah it costs me 4k, but I could see someone in a week. |
I've never lived in the US so can't speak to how it is there.
The system we have here in Australia works well for me; when I got cancer I needed radiation therapy and complex nerve surgery plus years of follow up care, and it was all covered by our universal healthcare system, I didn't pay a cent out of pocket. Didn't have to wait long either.
I'm not exactly wealthy, I make enough to live comfortably enough, but without Medicare I shudder to think what all my treatment would have cost me.
