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Is there any real and legitimate reason why the US is basically the only “developed” country that doesn’t have universal healthcare? Why should people have to choose either life crippling debt or death?
Is there any real and legitimate reason why the US is basically the only “developed” country that doesn’t have universal healthcare? Why should people have to choose either life crippling debt or death?
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Because the people in charge are paid off by insurance and the medical industry.
That’s it. That’s the reason.
They gain support for this back platform due to insane propaganda from insurance and the medical industry.
Lobbying is the real reason. Insurance and Pharma
Everything, even healthcare, is for profit in America.
There are real reasons. But no legit reasons. Just BS belief in the myth of meritocracy in a nation founded on BS puritan “work ethic” built on stolen land and constructed with free or exploited labor. It started with greed, is greed and probably will be until the day it collapses on itself.
The healthcare system here is for-profit. It’s designed to make money first, and provide healthcare second.
The same insatiable greed that the country was founded on
US is the only developed country that took capitalism as a bible and neglected other ideologies, calling them scary names like socialism or communism.
Well you see the other option is to increase taxes and in case you don’t remember we kinda had a revolution purely out of taxes, also because the federal government can’t make laws about heathcare, that’s why roe vs Wade got revoked, it wasn’t from a moral standpoint it’s just the 10th amendment gives any power not directly stated to the US government to the states. Healthcare isn’t in the US constitution so the right on how to handle it is in the hands of the states. Same applies to marriage laws, that’s why some states don’t allow same-sex marriage, or why weed is legal in some states and not others.
Edit: ima be real with y’all I’m a complete fuckin oaf and unless it’s about building a bridge anything I say is gonna be stupid.
The US was not able to pass legislation to create one for people other than the old, disabled, and very poor.
‘Merica.
The argument is about taxes. However, the cost of health insurance, both by the employee and the employer, the administration and profit of health insurance, entire billing departments dedicated to sorting out who to bill and how much, The salaries and benefits of all the people involved in insurance companies, insurance agents, and the administration of employee benefits within individual companies, all add up to a lot more money than what taxes would increase.
Then there’s the extra money an employer no longer needs to pay in the form of health insurance if it’s being paid by individual taxes that can then go to the employee.
Too much money to be made for people in charge
ACA your point was valid before 2014.
If we made it simple, then all those people whose sole job is to navigate the million hurdles placed in front of us would be out of a job.
And I guess thats bad.
Capitalism. And just pure, unadulterated greed.
Didn’t the ACA get rid of “life crippling debt” with the maximum out of pocket and lifetime max?
Health insurance and medical systems are a business in the US. Should they be? IDK. Would it be better to give people the opportunity to have quality of life and live longer, because we have the ability. Absolutely. It’s not scary communism to have a socialized system and a Private system. Because people do die waiting for care under socialized medicine too.
An unholy combination of the just world fallacy and the idea that “your” tax money shouldn’t go to support freeloaders that voluntarily refuse to pull themselves up
Death = money in the US of a
But hey, the US has excellent bankruptcy laws so it kind of evens out.