sj_zero on Nostr: You know, I'm Canadian. I live in a country with single payer healthcare, and several ...
You know, I'm Canadian. I live in a country with single payer healthcare, and several members of my family have gotten expensive surgeries that have saved their life or changed their life immeasurably through that system. I and most people in Canada support our single-payer healthcare system because even though it is deeply imperfect, it does what it's supposed to do generally speaking.
You know something interesting about American healthcare?
Americans already pay enough government money to have way better single payer of healthcare than Canadians do. The Canadian government plays roughly 4,500 per person on healthcare. The United States government pays almost twice that.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/283221/per-capita-health-expenditure-by-country/
Of course we do have to admit the data is from 2022, meaning there's some us spending that could remain from covid.
If we go back a few years, Canada and the US are spending roughly the same public money per person on healthcare.
https://ourworldindata.org/government-spending
So the question is: why aren't people pounding the table asking why they don't have the public healthcare they're paying for? The private insurance industry seems to be a stopgap measure, why should they get the lions share of the blame when the they shouldn't exist for the most part in the first place because the Americans already pay full pull for a universal public healthcare system?
It isn't whether they can or not, they already are. What's the use of a private system that is fully publicly funded?
You know something interesting about American healthcare?
Americans already pay enough government money to have way better single payer of healthcare than Canadians do. The Canadian government plays roughly 4,500 per person on healthcare. The United States government pays almost twice that.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/283221/per-capita-health-expenditure-by-country/
Of course we do have to admit the data is from 2022, meaning there's some us spending that could remain from covid.
If we go back a few years, Canada and the US are spending roughly the same public money per person on healthcare.
https://ourworldindata.org/government-spending
So the question is: why aren't people pounding the table asking why they don't have the public healthcare they're paying for? The private insurance industry seems to be a stopgap measure, why should they get the lions share of the blame when the they shouldn't exist for the most part in the first place because the Americans already pay full pull for a universal public healthcare system?
It isn't whether they can or not, they already are. What's the use of a private system that is fully publicly funded?