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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Where do you get the "someone else pays" part? We pay for it via taxes. And we pay less than you do and it covers everyone.
Are you in favour of paying more, risk not getting covered because of a company paper pusher found a loophole and it not covering everyone?
And should you fall off a roof and not work so unable to afford to pay insurance. Having to apply to a Medicare Board to agree you're worth saving?
I never thought you that dumb.  |
you pay for it via taxes, but you don't pay for your own healthcare, the healthcare costs are shared among everyone...
so for example your neighbor is morbidly obese, leads sedentary lifestyle, smokes 2 packs per day, and drinks a 12 pack of beer per day, and as a result his healthcare costs are 3x of yours, by sharing healthcare costs with him (like you do in the UK) you would be subsidizing his poor lifetime choices...
when viewing from his point of view, there isn't much incentive to improve his health, his healthcare might cost $5k/month, but who cares? he isn't paying for it, so incentive to improve his health is reduced...
so you get fucked, and he doesn't have much incentive to improve his health.... lose-lose for everyone involved...