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@Ararune If the US would introduce a Universal health care system, be it single payer like the UK NHS or a Bismarck system like France or Germany, health care costs overall would be reduced for drastically. I give you the main reasons:
1. If you are covered, you will go to the doctor earlier, therefor treatment costs are cheaper. In the current system, as you often have to pay thousands of Dollars before the insurance covers anything, therefor you delay any visit as long as possible. This alone cuts costs massivly.
2. red tape. What treatment is paid by the insurance, to what fraction, is the doctor covered, is the hospital covered? A bureaucratic nightmare and enormous costs. Completely gone, as all doctors and hospitals are covered, as well as all accepted treatments.
3. treating the problem, not the symptoms. Which brings us back to life expectancy. The US opioid crisis is the root of the reduction in US life expectancy. Its reason is that opioids are cheaper than treating the cause.
4. Extra costs like advertisement are massively reduced.
5. Costs for drugs and treatment are massively reduced, as they are not negotiated individually for each insurance and each hospital, but on block.
If you do not believe me, just compare each of those factors. USA vs. Canada/GB or USA vs. France/Germany, depending if you prefer the single payer or the Bismarck system.
By the way, you also have free choice of doctor, hospital and treatment in those systems, too.
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@Ararune Well, in the US, costs for such a scan may be $1000. Can you pay that out of your pocket?
What you fail to mention is that waiting times are not an issue of Universal healthcare, but of under funding. And for state employed doctors:
there is the Bismarck system. Doctors, hospitals, they work private, either self employed or for a private company. Only in case of state owned hospitals, they are employed by the state (which is the minority). Therefor they offer you the scan quickly, as that is the way they make their money.
I am tired of the myth that universal health care results in long waiting times. It does not. In countries that deliberately under fund their health service for political reasons (hello, NHS!) that might be the case. But in all other cases, it works, it delivers quick and cost efficient results, and nobody goes bankrupted due to their healthcare bill.
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