re: USA will have Socialized Medicine in 20 Years - It's Inevitable

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All this.

Good health should be a luxury that poor people shouldn't be able to afford. I mean, if not, what's the point of being rich?

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Cause you realize those dirty poors still show up to the ER, still get sick, still get long-term diseases that require expensive care or emergency intervention?

And when they cant pay, guess who the costs get passed off onto? You

Guess who's tax dollars go up when medical bankruptcies compose around half of all bankruptcies filling up the courts? You

We already have a sort of basic, super limited UHC in this country(we wont turn you away if you show up at the ER needing care or require ambulance intervention), we just do it in the most mind-bogglingly stupid and unnecessarily expensive way imaginable. Which is why despite not covering everyone, we still pay more tax dollars, more private care dollars than every other industrialized country, which all have some form of much more comprehensive UHC.

want better than standard care; do better. pretty simple.