re: Why can every other first world country have healthcare for all?

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Or we can be like every other civilized nation on the planet and take care of our sick and injured at a tax rate that is the same as what you already pay for insurance to see the same doctors

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Your response here and to my other post seem to indicate that you think there would be absolutely zero difference in cost if you uprooted the entire, functioning system and implemented a fourth government program (universal, since they already fund or implement medicare, Medicaid, and the VA fairly heavy-handedly).


If I am correct in understanding your position, I can simply assure you that you are incorrect.

How can I say this? I do this for a living in the private world. You think that my $300/m buys all my healthcare, it seems, and if I paid that $300 to the government I wouldn't need to pay a copay. My current copay? 100% of the cost of the visit up to $6000/year. Can you please explain where the difference of $6,000 comes from?
Also, as someone who does this, elimination of the copay will tremendously increase demand. A minimum of 90% of what I and most of my colleagues consider to be overuse of our current healthcare system comes from patients who pay nothing for their care.

Making people responsible for their care is the good thing.


Allowing Idiocracy to continue and further enabling it will not help.