re: Has anyone lived in a country with universal healthcare?

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You can’t do this for your entire life, and most of these jobs are for young people that don’t go to college, or Mexicans.

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Of course not. I didn't claim otherwise.

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No it isn’t. I’ve had it before when I was in college.
What are you calling expensive? If you work as a cashier at a gas station, then yeah any health insurance is expensive.
The only reason I had it was in case something major happen.

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Depends on the person. These plans also have high deductibles; ACA long-term plans have $400+ per mo plans with $3k to $9k deductibles; short term 6 mo. plans are $100/mo. with $5000+ deductibles. The cheap stuff is great so long as nothing happens. Glad nothing happened to you.

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I don’t need to. No one would do that if the employer wasn’t helping.

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Didn't say you needed to. If you have a good handle on what it would cost to keep you level of coverage without an employer or know what you'd do if you'd prefer to go for a non-COBRA option, then great. It was just a suggestion.

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You sound like your complaining about insurance options as a 25 year old day laborer.
If your still a single day laborer in your 30’s then that’s a choice you decided to make.

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*you're*. Not complaining. Stating there can a relative long periods of time that people can't get a job with employer healthcare, and, I reiterate, there are not enough of those jobs for everyone.

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Again, I’m not going to feel sorry for these people and change the way the world works to accommodate these people.
Young laborers don’t get sick and need to go to the doctor, and if they did, paying out of pocket isn’t as much as you think. You could go to urgent care right now and get an antibiotic for your sniffles like a pussy and it would be like $80.

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Again, not asking you to. I think there's a more varied range of valid medical expenses and situations that come up than you're giving credit for.

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our either making enough money to get your own emergency only health insurance or your poor enough to get it all for free.

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Yes, I agree, somewhat. Emergency health insurance is a valid option, but, there's a time limit on it (6-12 months with 1 maybe 2 renewals allowed), and, if something major happens, the high deductible has to be met first before the insurance will pay anything. If one can only afford a cheap premium, coming up with $5k-$15k is tough. That's the current state of short-term insurance plans.

Irrespective of all of the above, the overarching point is that maintaining the status quo still means you're paying for the have-nots whether you want to or not.

For all the bullshite we are feed by the for profit health section I have had this discussion with many Brits and Canadians. If you have 1 million or more a year, apparently most all the OT, this is a good system for you. And the richest people in the world come here for care.

But for everyone else universal healthcare would probably be better. All the people I have spoken to that live in these universal healthcare systems either liked it or were ok with it and said the bs about having to wait 6 months to see a doctor and all the horror stories we here were completely bullshite but go ahead and be good sheeple and believe what they tell you. Baaa baaa

I’ve traveled the globe. The US has one of the worst healthcare system of any modern country. It 100% run by pharmaceutical companies and politicians. Also, doctors in this country are way behind and in bed with both. I’m not sure if there is a way to solve it.

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They also saved his life with a machine called the Lucas Machine that is outlawed in the USA. Without it, he would have likely died.

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We have EMS who carry the Lucas device. It just performs CPR for you. Why do you think it’s outlawed here lol

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don't think that exists except in some norwegian countries maybe.

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The lack of geographic IQ in this country is staggering

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Maybe not a wealthy nation, but I live in Taiwan.

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You are fixing to live in a communist country, lol.

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Americans can be bankrupt because they got sick but I don’t know what the alternative is.

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there are a plethora of resources available so this does not happen, I have seen stupid people pay medical bills 100% uninsured when most would allow payments or reduced negotiated down the bills & were not informed how to do this.

Here you go this is just health care tax not income or other taxes but I think it hits about 65% of your income

Families among the top 10% of income earners in Canada making an average annual income of $286,808 pay an estimated $41,916 for health care annually through taxes, the study says, while the bottom 10% earning an average of $18,686 annually pay $726 annually.

Families earning an average of $38,110 annually pay $1,799 a year; those earning $49,586 annually pay $3,283 a year; those earning $61,073 pay $4,857; those earning $75,300 pay $6,521; those earning $91,097 pay $8,516; those earning $109,374 pay $10,854; those earning $131,552 pay $14,022; and those earning $166,740 pay $19,166.

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Has anyone lived in a country with universal healthcare?

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Yes.

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let's also not forget that while the US is footing the bill for the national defense of many of these free healthcare utopias, freeing up untold dollar amounts that they can pump into their welfare states, US industry is also footing the research and development bill for much of the world's medical and pharmaceutical technology.

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If we'd stop being the worlds banker and take care of our own, we could all have Universal Healthcare-- Not just people on Medicaid. I am not saying it will be perfect, but right now, many have nothing because they can't afford care with their current plan.