>>39150633This, public/private seems to be the best sensible mix between the two extremes of total state control (like the NHS in GB, although you can argue a lot of its insufficiency problems that get blamed on the state are just the result of conservative underfunding and austerity, but alas) and total private market capitalism like in the US where you can get fucked by medical bills and are milked for your money through the nose.
My country luckily has a sensible mixed system. Basic affordable universal general care for the general population taken care of by the general social insurance everybody pays into, and you can order additional private insurance on top of it if you want for extras that aren't essential but nice to have if you want (some additional dental/vision stuff, preferred appointments with doctors, single bed rooms in hospitals, faster waiting times, etc.) Apropos the "waiting times" so many americans fearmonger about in european systems, I don't really know what's the issue? There aren't really droves of people dying preventable deaths because they were waiting too long for their operations (waiting lists, if at all, mostly exist just for non-lifethreatening stuff, and if it's existential, you get treated right away on a per-needs basis). If you want to have an argument about it, let's just compare how many people are dying in the US because they were not even put on a waiting list but simply not treated at all because of (lack of) money. I bet it's far more than in muh waiting list europe. Yeah sure, if you are scared of the "government buerocrat" that "decides who lives and dies" in europe, when in the US that's what actually happens, it's just that the decider over there is a corporate accountant, then it's fine because it's not socialism lol.
