Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Why Healthcare Costs Are So High in America" video.

My grandmother waited two years. Obviously she wouldn't have afforded a 70k surgery if that was the option. But what's two weeks in Canada can be years in other places with free healthcare.
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@alejandrofrade325 As someone living in the "other nations" the problem is exactly the same. Government pays for X, we get X. Does maybe the X not cover ambulances where you live? Tough luck. It's not apocalyptic but we're really not living the high life.
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@GhostSal They're not "putting pressure", the cold hard fact is that in the UK the NHS cost 11% of the budget. In the 2010s it climbed to 29%. It's on the way to be a third of the budget and that's unsustainable. So you look at the British healthcare under strain and think "it's a conspiracy!" but no. It just costs money. People don't want other govt services to be cut. People don't want to pay higher taxes. Something has to give.
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@GhostSal I had to look it up again. It was 29% of the public services budget, not the total budget. "In 1955/56 health spending was 11.2% of the public services budget. In 2015/16 it was 29.7%.[52] This equates to an average rise in spending over the full 60-year period of about 4% a year once inflation has been taken into account." [wikipedia] Although the percentage of the total budget isn't as dramatic, the rise is the same.
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@GhostSal Okay, but that doesn't change what I said. From the initial setup until now, the NHS cost nearly tripled in relation to what the British government paid for services. Forget about America. My point is that the NHS either suffers cuts, or costs spiral out of control. It's not about the UK or the US being worse. It's just that costs increase. That's unsustainable long term, either the government has to collect more revenue or the service has to compromise.
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@GhostSal But it's not "intentional", they simply can't afford to drive up the budget. Do you want to pay more? Because that's the alternative to the service being cut to what the state can pay.
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