[vlovich123]

Generally socialized healthcare is also cheaper because you have a single payer negotiating. You also don’t have all the middlemen that are spending time figuring out whether or not your insurance covers X Y or Z. So while it costs $140k out of pocket in addition to all the same background costs, in a socialized system it costs a heck of a lot less in addition to being free out of pocket. The trade off is that healthcare can be difficult to obtain as you have to navigate a very complicated system and there’s limited resources because it’s more accessible - if you’re upper middle class you can have similar struggles to find care as those who are poorer. The rich are oblivious to this because they can just pay for private care or travel to where private care exists.