Free healthcare!
Oh, my surgery? It's next year. Until then I am crippled by pain. :D
Once I tried to explain to someone online that here in Europe you still pay for private medical care if you want the best or you want your care to happen at a reasonable time.
He told me it's still good and paying is just "last resort". You wait months when you are in debilitating pain.
I mean, he's right. Having the option of free healthcare is better than not having the option of free healthcare, especially when that free healthcare does get the job done in a timely fashion most of the time.
The most absurd thing in the US is going to the doctor just to get a prescription and having it cost you $100 just to breath the same air as them for 5 minutes. That straight up doesn't happen Europe, and you can usually get such an appointment on the same or next day, no problem.
Free Healthcare is a good thing. The reason the US won't do it is because Americans - even democrats - would freak the fuck out the second they got told stop being fat shits and stop eating heart attack and diabetes fuel.
They'd see the first signs of a sugar tax and go apeshit.
If we are going with "it works most of the time" that applies pretty well to the American system too. Those "broke and destitute" from medical bills people are rare cases and usually people who brought it on themselves (like those fat shits!) who I'd freak the fuck out if I had to waste tax money supporting. The rare upon rare case of freak accidents bankrupting are a problem, but all systems have cracks and usually these days are covered by GoFundMe esque charity. A tragedy, but utopia isn't available yet.
Plus for every one of those I could find you someone who wasn't cared for properly by the free healthcare providers, either they had to wait too long, they weren't treated carefully enough (ignored, not everything done for them), complications coming from cutting corners, etc.
My mother's friend was pretty young when she got breast cancer. She could clearly feel a lump, but the doctor told her she is wasting time and money that could be used on people who "really have cancer".
Yeah, like you can list off clear advantages and disadvantages of both systems.
But so many Europeans just talk as if their system is clearly overwhelmingly superior while brushing away stories of its faults. Then turn around and take the rare American cases are proof that everyone is suffering under the "inferior" system.
Free healthcare!
Oh, my surgery? It's next year. Until then I am crippled by pain. :D
Once I tried to explain to someone online that here in Europe you still pay for private medical care if you want the best or you want your care to happen at a reasonable time.
He told me it's still good and paying is just "last resort". You wait months when you are in debilitating pain.
I mean, he's right. Having the option of free healthcare is better than not having the option of free healthcare, especially when that free healthcare does get the job done in a timely fashion most of the time.
The most absurd thing in the US is going to the doctor just to get a prescription and having it cost you $100 just to breath the same air as them for 5 minutes. That straight up doesn't happen Europe, and you can usually get such an appointment on the same or next day, no problem.
Free Healthcare is a good thing. The reason the US won't do it is because Americans - even democrats - would freak the fuck out the second they got told stop being fat shits and stop eating heart attack and diabetes fuel.
They'd see the first signs of a sugar tax and go apeshit.
If we are going with "it works most of the time" that applies pretty well to the American system too. Those "broke and destitute" from medical bills people are rare cases and usually people who brought it on themselves (like those fat shits!) who I'd freak the fuck out if I had to waste tax money supporting. The rare upon rare case of freak accidents bankrupting are a problem, but all systems have cracks and usually these days are covered by GoFundMe esque charity. A tragedy, but utopia isn't available yet.
Plus for every one of those I could find you someone who wasn't cared for properly by the free healthcare providers, either they had to wait too long, they weren't treated carefully enough (ignored, not everything done for them), complications coming from cutting corners, etc.
My mother's friend was pretty young when she got breast cancer. She could clearly feel a lump, but the doctor told her she is wasting time and money that could be used on people who "really have cancer".
Yeah, like you can list off clear advantages and disadvantages of both systems.
But so many Europeans just talk as if their system is clearly overwhelmingly superior while brushing away stories of its faults. Then turn around and take the rare American cases are proof that everyone is suffering under the "inferior" system.