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Only poor people get it for free in my country and get rich can pay their medical bills with no problem. The middle class people always wind up in some sort of debt even after health insurance. I'm trying to make sure I don't go to a hospital anytime soon since I've seen people struggle with paying bills. IIN?
In civilised countries healthcare is run by the state and is free for everyone.
In the UK we pay taxes which also include healthcare for everyone that lives here
In New Zealand we have an extremely good universal healthcare system. It is funded from our taxes and if you get sick or have an accident you go to hospital, get treated, recover and then carry on with your life just like you did before you were sick.
If you have an accident in the workplace in New Zealand Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) will come to the workplace and investigate the working conditions there and make sure the employer is not breaking any laws regarding safety in the workplace.
Healthcare in Europe and Canada isn't free. You pay taxes (in some countries higher, in other countries lower) in a way such that everybody has access to quality healthcare whether they're rich or poor. That's how it should work in any civilized society. As a result, the healthcare systems in Europe and Canada have lower costs and better outcomes.
I'm assuming you're in the states given what you describe. I feel the same way
I voted that it is normal but in my personal opinion I dont want the government controlling the amount of health care coverage I may or may not have. So I would prefer to have private health insurance, but then I would still need to pay taxes on top of that for other people's insurance so that would bother me. That being said that system wouldn't be much different than parents sending their kids to private schools. In a way I think that us Americans will eventually get to a point where the government guarentees health insurance. But I will say our attempts at providing quality insurance to everyone have been total fucking disasters so don't expect anything good.
So sad your Country is so backward. Maybe someday they will come to their senses.
The New (Trump administered) American Healthcare system: Why pay for someone else's sickness when Natural Selection could kill them for you, FOR FREE???
I want there to be no healthcare at all. Why should I pay for your cancer? You don't pay for my problems either.
See that's the argument from emotion that people use to push healthcare. You don't pay for the what ifs that I value so why should I pay for the what ifs that you value?
I didn't mean just that.
I mean, think about your neighbours. Imagine they lost their jobs, and suddenly their kid gets really sick. Wouldn't you be happy to know they are still getting treatment? Maybe it doesn't happen to you, but it will happen to other people.
Wait 'till you get cancer. You won't be spreading this kind of crap, will you? Do you know what these people have to deal with?
Ah, all these spoiled rich kids. Thinking nothing affects them. Well, let me tell you something, (this is coming from someone currently studying for medical school) health and disease affects everyone. Not just obese people or poor people, ok?
I actually find this quite disturbing to half the population with some form of illness, wether it be physical or mental.
Dude you don't know if I've had costly tragedies that I had to pay for myself. To each their own shit to deal with, that's what I'm saying.
Still, if you had to pay your illness yourself, good for you. But if somebody can't afford it, you are so mean you want them to die? isn't it easier just to pay taxes, and help these people who cant afford it, and even use it yourself too, if you have a big illness one day?
Here's what I don't get. You're fine with paying, say, $200 or more a month for insurance plus all the extras like copays and deductibles. You are giving that money to a corporation that profits from it but you can't bear the thought of a sick person benefiting from your money? They already do because that is how insurance works but why should select people be made millionaires in the process while denying claims and paying out the least possible? Why are average people who maybe make some poor health choices more villified than people who are literally taking your money and trying to keep as much of it as possible while making your own care more expensive and complicated?
Three words about you blackcatsareawesome: Republican Trump Supporter
My grandparents died of cancer. 1 in every 7 people do man. More than radical Islam that's for sure. And I actually am currently studying health and medicine so I better know a thing or two about it just saying.
PS: Not all problems are paid for. It's sad, but true. Sorry about that.
You pay for it anyway if you buy health insurance. If you don't have health insurance, then everybody else pays for you in the end when something inevitably happens to you. If you don't have insurance or can't afford to see a doctor, you're less likely to get seen for something that isn't literally killing you yet, prevention and early detection is cheaper than treating a full-blown illness.
Why pay hundreds a month and make select people rich instead of paying an acceptable % of your income, not making people rich, and improving the quality of life for your whole country?
Nobody should be making these insane profits off of a basic human need such as health care.