| beckman466: On your post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29474353 > tell me then, why do a bunch of my US
friends not have health insurance? even
the ones who left their jobs during the
pandemic? I don't know anything about the
circumstances of your friends. > to be frank, it sounds like your income is
too high for you to actually know what
happens when dealing with this 'patchwork'
(as you call it) shitshow system in real
life, to try to get the care you need to
survive. Without going into my "income", it turns
out I know something about the US HRSA
system: They run clinics that can do
well providing primary care and then can
refer patients to more advanced care
when needed. Charges vary but generally are low: At a
clinic, the really poor pay nothing. If
they have a little money, maybe the cost
is $20 a visit. With a little more, the
cost is $75 a visit. > can you help me understand why you
posted this comment? I was responding to user try_again and their post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29472346 with in part: > If that's a correct guess, as a European
the US work standards frighten me. Health
insurance so tightly coupled to work that
if you get into an accident shortly after
being laid off and don't have (expensive)
private insurance you could be bankrupted
by it. So, I wanted to add some information to
the issue of "bankrupted by it". For your > why state all these downsides and try to
play this sort of 'neutral' card by saying
"I don't know what if anything is
right/wrong"? all of these so called
reasons (or fears/scares) are just
completely irrelevant when we can see that
all other global north nations have single
payer systems. The "fears/scares" I listed really are
"commonly voiced". Soooo, take this list
as the POLITICAL answer to why the US does
not have single payer, etc., not the
rational, economic, financial, moral,
medical, etc. but just the POLITICAL
answer for the post of user beckman466 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29474353 Or can't give a good, rational answer to beckman466 using only what is rational, economic,
financial, moral, medical, etc. and
instead must at least include some of the
politics. Here define politics as using
false information, cherry picking
evidence, quotes out of context, lies,
manipulation to fool people! |