>>10035578>Better than having a communist system like CanadaMy fellow Freedombro, I have never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I have lived half of my adult life in the US, and half outside of it (mostly Germany and Japan), and I have bad news: The "wait months to see a doctor" criticism went from an astroturfed meme by insurance companies, into a weirdly-ingrained dogma that is detached from actual market analysis. Look at the data on Australia's system, which still allows private insurance. In my personal experience, other countries (and I emphasize "many", not "all") really do have better systems that cost them less. Even worse, because of the way the pharmaceutical profits interact with the price-indirection of US insurance, part of the reason other countries get to pay less is BECAUSE the US is paying more.
>the medical system clogged up by undesirables who keep being reckless since other people will be paying for their medical bill anyway.This is already true in the United States, AND we are artificially limiting our ability to push back via genuine market negotiation. The existing US medicare and veteran systems combined cover more people than the UK's NHS. Canada and Europe are free-riding on our intentional unwillingness to allow negotiation on prescription drug prices. Americans are paying more, getting less, and subsidizing the rest of the world in the process. Maybe you're in favor of that kind of charity, and if so, more power to you.
Sageru against myself here, because holy fuck, I hate getting baited into correcting fellow burgers about how they are a fish that doesn't know what water is. But sometimes you just have to.
