re: Single payer healthcare in Japan with population of 127 million

Japan also has an enormous national debt, twice as big as ours per capita, and an elderly citizenry that is not being replaced by births, so its future financially and demographically is not good

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Countries with somewhat successful single payer systems have two things in common:

1. They have much higher labor participation rates
2. They spend jack shite on the military because we provide their global security.

When America stops providing global security, and everyone gets off their asses and starts contributing to society, we can talk about single payer.



Oh one more thing....

In a single payer system, a 72 year old with congestive heart failure gets pain meds and sent home to die. In America, we dump $100k+ into prolonging their life a few more years.

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By having a badass military and very generous welfare system that pays people to be poor, we've foreited our ability to provide free healthcare for all. We are trying to do free healthcare for just children, poor, and elderly, and we can't even pay for that.... running deficits year after year after year. 30% of the entire federal budget goes to pay interest on previously accrued treasury debt from decades of deficits. The utterance of single payer in this country is phantasmagoric horseshite.

We've had single payer in the US for decades. It's called the VA. Do you want to use the VA?

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Average health insurance premium of $140 per month for a family of four ($35 per person)

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How many poor obese minorities do they have?

I doubt there are pussies that go to the hospital for drinking too many Red Bulls like in the OT.

Betcha the U.S. has significantly more welfare recipients than Japan.

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Of all the things in China that are corrupt, their healthcare isn't one of them




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Single payer healthcare in Japan

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$140 a month implies they do some things in ways we do not
what is the cost for a room in a hospital?
is there a death panel?
how much does an MD make in that country?

How many are on disability in Japan?

What portion of healthcare is supplemented by the government?

Their tax brackets are higher than ours. 50% of people in this country don't pay any income tax.

Your post is basically worthless and doesn't tell us anything. Strong work

Let me show you what you just did....
A guy fell and cracked his skull, went to the ED and got a CT scan and paid zero dollars in the United States!!!! Look how good our healthcare is!!!!!!
What I didn't tell you is that guy was homeless living under the bridge and the tax payers of the country paid the bill

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Average health insurance premium of $140 per month for a family of four ($35 per person)

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Ship into Japan just the current NOLA city jail inmates and watch as that premium quadruples for their entire nation within 6 months.