| ▲ | ThrowawayTestr a day ago |
| Why is the United States the only country on Earth where free healthcare doesn't work? |
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| ▲ | loeg 16 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The US' healthcare model is not unique, and almost no countries have zero-cost-to-consumer healthcare systems (and none of them are free -- they're just paid by taxpayers instead of consumers). "Free" healthcare is the exception rather than some kind of international norm you incorrectly make it out to be. The first step to reforming US healthcare is actually understanding it, and understanding some international designs. Lying about it doesn't help. |
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| ▲ | preg_match 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Not a single soul on earth thinks single payer healthcare is free. 8 billion people, not one of them thinks it. They mean “free to the consumer at time of service”, which it is. Nobody is lying, everyone agrees, it’s just you who doesn’t understand. | | |
| ▲ | loeg 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Not a single soul on earth thinks single payer healthcare is free. 8 billion people, not one of them thinks it. You are incredibly optimistic about a large swath of the population's understanding, unfortunately. > Nobody is lying There are plenty of people in this discussion making statements of fact that are false. Call it whatever you want. | | |
| ▲ | preg_match an hour ago | parent [-] | | No, they’re not false, you’re just misunderstanding. When people say “free” healthcare they do not literally mean all healthcare is zero dollars. They don’t mean nurses earn a wage of 0 dollars an hour. No, they mean free at time of service, which they are. Don’t believe me? Great, then ask them, without doing word gymnastics to try to trick them. Should medical equipment cost 0 dollars to produce? Should doctors not earn any salary or wage? They will say no, 100% of the time. |
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| ▲ | SpicyLemonZest 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The vast majority of those 8 billion people do not have single payer healthcare. A lot of Americans get confused on this, because we're the only country in the Anglosphere that doesn't do single payer, but it's far from universal globally. | | |
| ▲ | preg_match an hour ago | parent [-] | | I didn’t say they did. I said they understand that free healthcare is not literally free, but comes from taxes. Do not underestimate them, they understand very basic things. |
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| ▲ | SpaceNoodled a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Good old American Exceptionalism. |
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| ▲ | 6510 a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| People wouldn't be externalities if healthcare costs money. Next thing you know you would have to pay attention to the environment or god forbid the food. It would eat away the budget for overthrowing countries and bombing children. Watch them elect a democrat to do the bombing next round and a new republican after that. It sounds like a joke but it isn't funny. |
