Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "Obamacare in Trump country" video.

@borderlands10 A national health service, such as that in the UK, is not free except at the point of delivery. It's paid for from general taxation paid by people over their working lifetimes so the cost is spread out in an affordable way. Everyone puts into the taxation pot and when they are sick, they use the health service for free at that point. Why is the US spending so much more than other countries on healthcare? A good part of that spending is siphoned off in profits and a lot also goes in administration because it's not the most efficient system. If you eliminate that, there's more public money to spend on healthcare and to cover the whole population. All the countries in Europe do it without going bankrupt. The systems may be slightly different from each other. For instance Germany has an insurance based system but everyone is covered and the system is regulated so that it isn't exploitative. Look how well Germany has done on dealing with the Coronavirus also.
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@hannahbanana7766 I inserted a comment explaining that, and how America spends far more on healthcare as a proportion of GDP than the rest of the world but does not get best value as there are so many people not covered and money is siphoned out of the system by way of profits. I explained about paying via taxation or state regulated insurance (such as Germany does) and how no country doing this has gone bankrupt. However my comment seems to have disappeared as if it's been removed. Most odd.
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@SilverSurferr320 Taxpayers i.e all of us in work, but if we lose a job we still get healthcare.
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@borderlands10 No it would not bankrupt the country. Name one country in the world that it has bankrupted? Did you know that the USA has one of the highest spends on healthcare as a proportion of GDP, and yet still so many people are not covered and go bankrupt as individuals.
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