• kerrigan778@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Garbage conservative misinformation whether on purpose or not.

    https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries/

    The US spends wildly more per capita on healthcare than any other country and we have worse outcomes and worse service. Of course you still have to pay for public healthcare, it is much, much less expensive though. The US is wildly overpaying for worse healthcare due to corruption and market failure.

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      5 months ago

      Actually a lot of countries I find are getting a ton of propaganda that private Healthcare is “good”. That public/universal is bad. They apply the misinformation pressure towards taxes and wait time for an appointment. Saying private will be their salvation.

      Of course we know different. We know we wait just as long as they do(in fact usually longer), pay 3x+ more for shoddy service. That the doctors are tired going through hoops, they just want to treat their patients. But the news in those countries seem heavily pressured to say otherwise. While visiting i saw some fucked up commercials and even a 2hr long news episode saying private is basically a godsend. Really eerie. Of course no system is perfect, yet, so it’s easy to point at the universal “failures” … but private will exacerbate all of those issues. They don’t tell them that though.

      So I don’t think the guy was purposefully being malicious, but definitely on the receiving end of some of that propaganda.

    • Damage@feddit.it
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      5 months ago

      I really don’t care about what you guys do, I’m just sharing how it works so people don’t think it just falls from the sky.

      You’re all so fucking polarized in your political standoff that you can’t even read a simple descriptive post without thinking THE OTHER SIDE IS UP TO SOMETHING. Chill the fuck down.

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        5 months ago

        We know, we already pay high taxes in most states. For most people, universal healthcares monthly charges would be 2-3x less than they pay on monthly insurance alone. Then we also have added costs, premiums, deductibles we have to hit (usually pay in 3k+ yearly to hit the deductible) and then they can still charge 20% on any costs accrued. It’s hell.

        I shouldn’t have to debate between cancer and food/rent for a minor, 15 min procedure.