Summary
Polls show a majority blame insurance and pharmaceutical companies for high costs, denied claims, and access issues.
Only 44% rate U.S. health care quality as “good” or “excellent,” a 20-year low.
Support for government intervention is rising, with 62% favoring federal responsibility for universal health care.
Meanwhile, satisfaction with the Affordable Care Act has grown, with 54% approving.
Trump’s unclear health care overhaul plans are entering a polarized environment where Americans remain split on private versus government-run systems.
You don’t want universal healthcare but you agree that tying health insurance to a private company is awful.
So what’s your hangup? You don’t want your taxes to go up? If so, I can assure you it won’t be $12000/year.
I want health insurance from a private company of MY choice. I don’t want to choose my job based on what health insurance they provide. Right now nobody reports to me - there is no incentive anywhere for me.
So that still doesn’t tell me why you don’t want universal healthcare…
Because I believe in the free market. But what we means I’m not actually in the market and so the free market isn’t serving me.
But private health insurance can coexist with universal healthcare
Maybe, but generally universal has subsidies and so private cannot compete. Or universal has limits on coverage thus making poor who really need help unable to get good care
That second sentence isn’t true
Why would someone in a universal system get prikate insurance anyway
As somebody who has by now lived in 2 countries with Universal Healthcare I can answer that:
So if you want to not to have to wait months for specialist appointments and surgery and you can afford it, you get Healthcare Insurance. This even more so for aesthetic and run of the mill dental treatment - the Public isn’t going to, for example, just put you in front of the queue to give you an implant unless it’s deemed necessary because of your health, so if your concern is about your appearance you’ll have to wait years or it won’t even be covered.
Mind you, the whole thing is still backed by the Public Healthcare System: if during a surgery at a private hospital you have massive complications they’ll generally transfer you to a Public Hospital.
Further, even in the Private everything is way cheaper because of the massive competition from the Public System, plus the Public even uses its leverage to keep the prices of more common medicine low (basically since most of the prescriptions are done by doctors in the Public System, for things were there are multiple options the most expensive stuff doesn’t get prescribed unless it offers enough benefit versus the cheaper options to justify it, so for example things like Insulin are way cheaper if you get it without a prescription from a Public System doctor and free or near free if you do because the State pays most or all of the price)
Anyways, the single biggest benefit of Universal Healthcare which the “free market is the best” (in this case it isn’t: in general the free market optimizes for profit, not for outcomes, and further, in this domain people will pay whatever it takes to survive and don’t actually have the expertise to judge the quality of treatment and know the availability of other options, so there is no natural free market here) crowd forgets is the peace of mind and freedom Universal Healthcare gives:
Private Healthcare Systems are very much prisons that keep people tied to traditional jobs,
Maybe private insurance is problem then? Because they used to not have viable alternatives? Or how would ancap phrase it “used to not have competetion”.
The other reply answered your question better than I ever could so I’ll leave it at that
“Subsidies”, lol. USSA subsidised its private health insurance companies more, than any other in the world. Private companies are great at double-charging. That’s why healthcare should be single-payer system.
What do you even try to say? Let’s say I break leg. In country with UHC I will:
In country without UHC I will:
In first example I spent about 1$ for metro ticket back home, while in second one I would be bankrupt 12 times.
What if you have a tumor that needs to be removed but the doctors determine it isn’t cancer. How long do you wait?
As long as you are not willing to adopt and maintain UHC. And as long as it takes to remove that kind of tumor. Or do you really think privatizing healthcare will make those tumors disappear?
why do you give a shit about your insurance? its the hospital that matters. insurance is just a middle man and an expensive one at that. best insurance i’ve had is state run.