TL;DR at top: Until we stop funding socialist healthcare systems by proxy, this will cause people to go broke. This is not a goal achievable overnight so keep this in mind when the can is inevitably kicked because it will end up being less popular than it seems.
Not because it shouldn't be that way, but because ultimately we need America to take the lead and bring back manufacturing of medicine to the states.
What this ends up doing in the current framework is totally breaking people for the smallest injuries or sicknesses, which is either leading people not to seek help they need (also incredibly important to curb the mental health problems of society today, separate issue) or risk debt and homelessness just to get treatment to get back to work.
It is a bitter but necessary pill to swallow:
The population that has to pay these costs out of pocket are subsidizing the social health of other states and countries. We pay more, so they pay less.
So ultimately what I am trying to say here is this: when this goal is inevitably not met, try to remember that it is a monumental goal that requires the U.S. and possibly the rest of Canada to stand up against the pharmaceutical companies and other socialist countries to actually make paying your own medical bills actually feasible for the majority of people.
This will not succeed on this scale.
TL;DR at top: Until we stop funding socialist healthcare systems by proxy, this will cause people to go broke. This is not a goal achievable overnight so keep this in mind when the can is inevitably kicked because it will end up being less popular than it seems.
Not because it shouldn't be that way, but because ultimately we need America to take the lead and bring back manufacturing of medicine to the states.
What this ends up doing in the current framework is totally breaking people for the smallest injuries or sicknesses, which is either leading people not to seek help they need (also incredibly important to curb the mental health problems of society today, separate issue) or risk debt and homelessness just to get treatment to get back to work.
It is a bitter but necessary pill to swallow:
The population that has to pay these costs out of pocket are subsidizing the social health of other states and countries. We pay more, so they pay less.
So ultimately what I am trying to say here is this: when this goal is inevitably not met, try to remember that it is a monumental goal that requires the U.S. and possibly the rest of Canada to stand up against the pharmaceutical companies and other socialist countries to actually make paying your own medical bills actually feasible for the majority of people.