[Boxbot]

I think you'll find that a running your healthcare expenses and approvals thru labyrinth of private, corporate bureaucracies, each siphoning off a portion of of the available money and incentivized to increase that amount however possible while offloading all expenses possible onto you, is in fact the ultimate expression of freedom. Please report to your local consumer reeducation camp for programming.

[peterangular]

Yep - exactly this. Now imagine they're keeping you alive on with this system extracting as much money as they possibly can even though you're a terminal patient that is in pain 100% of their remaining days.

Healthcare in this country is a racket.

[dvfjsdhgfv]

I sometimes feel that if Amiericans traveled more around the world it would help to eradicate false beliefs like these.

[testpostpls]

I’ve yet to travel to a country of 330 million people or more with flawless public healthcare. Perhaps you could point me to one?

[King-Aaron]

Well there's only two other countries with more than 330 million people so that's a bit of a poor argument to make, and it assumes that the well-functioning systems in (most, if not all) other western countries won't scale - I'm not entirely sure where such an assumption comes from.

Probably a refusal to imagine it as a possibility in the first place, I suppose.

[true_religion]

National level public healthcare would be difficult to implement in the US for the same reason a pan European standard would be hard to implement.

That said, if you do it on a state by state basis then qualify will vary just like it does between the different European countries.

But as the US is a single nation, the mere existence of variation will mean some people say the system is a failure.

[GordonS]

Because it working in smaller countries means it could never work in a large one?

But, why not? How is population size relevant?

[erentz]

Well "flawless" is obviously a disingenuous expectation on your part.

I would direct you to the United States which has a pretty amazing public healthcare system called Medicare that has an 80+% approval rating among those lucky enough to be on it.

[dredmorbius]

Did you miss the sarcasm?