I didn’t say they would be. But to pretend American healthcare makes sense is beyond absurd. Workers are already taxed to fund Medicare/-aid (which we can’t access), then we’re also expected to pay private insurance premiums. The best part is that’s de minimis! All that gets you is a pass to get in the door.
Then you have to pay co-pays and coinsurance, and possibly your deductible. We pay SIGNIFICANTLY more than our peers in the wider world for no reason other than greed.
A pyramid scheme is a fraudulent and unsustainable investment pitch that relies on promising unrealistic returns from imaginary investments. The early investors actually get paid those big returns, which leads them to recommend the scheme to others.
SSI relies on MORE people paying now than can be paid out later. So early “investors” get their returns… where newer investors will have little to no hope.
So what do I not know?
Caid/Care has a similar issue. If 100% (or even 20%…) of people paid into it needed it… it couldn’t possibly keep up/pay out.
That isn’t out of pocket expenses, healthcare is the largest expenditure in the federal budget so of course the per casita is going to be high for the wealthiest nation in the world.
We have a whole layer of leeches on our system that exist solely to suck us dry. They aren’t there to help us, they’re there only to get in the middle of us and our doctors and extract as much value as possible, even when that means using their untrained reckons or just sheer “fuck you we don’t want to pay for that” to deny treatment of doctor’s who’s literal job it is to prescribe the treatment.
The only wealthy ones are the insurance companies…
This thread itself has lot of people putting forth their shitty experience with American healthcare. Insurance denying to cover treatment on vague bullshit, not having coverage if you go to a clinic a block over, etc.
Paying for a service that most of the rest of the world decided should already be covered.
It’s getting paid from somewhere, by someone. Doctors aren’t just suddenly free because they have universal healthcare.
I didn’t say they would be. But to pretend American healthcare makes sense is beyond absurd. Workers are already taxed to fund Medicare/-aid (which we can’t access), then we’re also expected to pay private insurance premiums. The best part is that’s de minimis! All that gets you is a pass to get in the door.
Then you have to pay co-pays and coinsurance, and possibly your deductible. We pay SIGNIFICANTLY more than our peers in the wider world for no reason other than greed.
because it’s a pyramid scheme… Just like SSI is.
I don’t think you know what that word means
Many pay for few… and the majority can never and will never claim it.
https://www.investopedia.com/insights/what-is-a-pyramid-scheme/
SSI relies on MORE people paying now than can be paid out later. So early “investors” get their returns… where newer investors will have little to no hope.
So what do I not know?
Caid/Care has a similar issue. If 100% (or even 20%…) of people paid into it needed it… it couldn’t possibly keep up/pay out.
You do realized you still pay for your healthcare via taxes in those nations right?
Sure, although they pay far less and have better outcomes.
I live in the US and pay less than a lot of European nations so that’s not true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita
Sure thing bud.
That isn’t out of pocket expenses, healthcare is the largest expenditure in the federal budget so of course the per casita is going to be high for the wealthiest nation in the world.
Alrighty. But if you sort this by median income per capita, the US is pretty far down the list. 15th in fact.
We Americans just pay more for worse outcomes basically by any way you want to slice it.
We have a whole layer of leeches on our system that exist solely to suck us dry. They aren’t there to help us, they’re there only to get in the middle of us and our doctors and extract as much value as possible, even when that means using their untrained reckons or just sheer “fuck you we don’t want to pay for that” to deny treatment of doctor’s who’s literal job it is to prescribe the treatment.
It’s one of the handful of big problems that have such obvious solutions it blows my mind. A real am-I-going_crazy? topic.
The only wealthy ones are the insurance companies…
This thread itself has lot of people putting forth their shitty experience with American healthcare. Insurance denying to cover treatment on vague bullshit, not having coverage if you go to a clinic a block over, etc.