With the USA inventing money it doesn't have to pour it all into Ukraine and Israel to fund their respective genocides, that amount of money would be enough to give every teenager braces, "free" healthcare and college tuition for all citizens, housing for all homeless (who wish for a place to live)... I could go on. Jimmy has a good point there. I just don't want people to have to pay for gender mutilations, abortions, etc.
I live in Japan and in 2019, I was hospitalized for about a week and a half after my appendix burst. It only cost me the equivalent of $1,000. I got that amount back through my special travelers' insurance I have which reimburses my medical costs and I was also reimbursed through my life insurance policy. So I ended up with $1,000 after it was all done. If it had happened in America, I may as well have claimed bankruptcy. Socialized medicine works in Japan, but liberals in the USA never look to Japan as a model. The big difference is that Japan is not a society of litigation or rampant illegal immigration. Even when Obamacare was in the works, Hoard Dean himself admitted that without tort reform, people would still get screwed. My friend's wife was a doctor but when she saw what was coming down the road in the form of Obamacare, she resigned and became a housewife. If her malpractice insurance covers $1million and she gets sued for $2million (just for example), her life would be over, her husband would lose everything, etc.
Canadian here…. No you fucking don’t. We are dying in line ups and something like half of Canadians couldn’t access a doctor if their life depended on it, which it often does.
A Canadian friend of my dad,went and had the surgery he needed in mexico and payed cash for it. Excellent service cost about 10k and he didn't have to wait.
The reason health care expenses are so expensive is because the government controls it. More than 50% of all medical expenses are paid by the government, and they always cheat, leaving other patients to pay extra.
Advocating for even more government control is a path to disaster.
There is a medical office in Oklahoma that does all sorts of medical procedures, including most types of surgery. They list their prices up front.
They take no government money.
Their costs are about 80% less than what most people pay.
Get the government OUT of health care, and educate the doctors on REAL health rather than Big Pharma drugs.
As President Trump has said price transparency is the key to fixing a broken health care system in the USA. With insurance and hospitals they play a dangerous game of hot potato regarding which entity is going to be ripped off. Sadly the patient is stuck in the middle of this tug-of-war.
Most often insurance reps will negotiated that value down with hospitals, and come to an agreement. Then the patient covers what the insurance asks regarding deductibles and copays.
Without insurance you have to be your own advocate and negotiate deals with hospitals regarding large bills. That is hard to do if you are having health problems or you're helping a family member over long distances.
When hospital bills are $60,000 per day, I wonder if he is right about some kind of socialized medicine. My dads recent 3 day bill was 180k.
With the USA inventing money it doesn't have to pour it all into Ukraine and Israel to fund their respective genocides, that amount of money would be enough to give every teenager braces, "free" healthcare and college tuition for all citizens, housing for all homeless (who wish for a place to live)... I could go on. Jimmy has a good point there. I just don't want people to have to pay for gender mutilations, abortions, etc.
I live in Japan and in 2019, I was hospitalized for about a week and a half after my appendix burst. It only cost me the equivalent of $1,000. I got that amount back through my special travelers' insurance I have which reimburses my medical costs and I was also reimbursed through my life insurance policy. So I ended up with $1,000 after it was all done. If it had happened in America, I may as well have claimed bankruptcy. Socialized medicine works in Japan, but liberals in the USA never look to Japan as a model. The big difference is that Japan is not a society of litigation or rampant illegal immigration. Even when Obamacare was in the works, Hoard Dean himself admitted that without tort reform, people would still get screwed. My friend's wife was a doctor but when she saw what was coming down the road in the form of Obamacare, she resigned and became a housewife. If her malpractice insurance covers $1million and she gets sued for $2million (just for example), her life would be over, her husband would lose everything, etc.
60,000 a day is insane. Rather than socialized medicine, we should have a fair price for services.
Canadian here…. No you fucking don’t. We are dying in line ups and something like half of Canadians couldn’t access a doctor if their life depended on it, which it often does.
A Canadian friend of my dad,went and had the surgery he needed in mexico and payed cash for it. Excellent service cost about 10k and he didn't have to wait.
The reason health care expenses are so expensive is because the government controls it. More than 50% of all medical expenses are paid by the government, and they always cheat, leaving other patients to pay extra.
Advocating for even more government control is a path to disaster.
There is a medical office in Oklahoma that does all sorts of medical procedures, including most types of surgery. They list their prices up front.
They take no government money.
Their costs are about 80% less than what most people pay.
Get the government OUT of health care, and educate the doctors on REAL health rather than Big Pharma drugs.
That is how to fix the system.
As President Trump has said price transparency is the key to fixing a broken health care system in the USA. With insurance and hospitals they play a dangerous game of hot potato regarding which entity is going to be ripped off. Sadly the patient is stuck in the middle of this tug-of-war.
Most often insurance reps will negotiated that value down with hospitals, and come to an agreement. Then the patient covers what the insurance asks regarding deductibles and copays.
Without insurance you have to be your own advocate and negotiate deals with hospitals regarding large bills. That is hard to do if you are having health problems or you're helping a family member over long distances.