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I personally don't believe in socialized medicine as it devolves in a dmv queue of availability and efficiency. Also it degrades the quality of care as no one with ambition has any desire to make peanuts in comp. So overall it sounds nice in theory but doesn't actually work well in practice like most socialize concepts. I do think we should have some minimum care options picked up by the government with the option of private insurance. Sure you will get variable care based on wealth, but at least top tier surgeon abd doctors will exist versus everyone being a mediocre beareucrat.
Like I said basic care, but look at Canada and the UK where people have to wait months to years for surgeries
You're not following. You have to wait months if on the national health service but you can still have private insurance. Every proper company private supplies health insurance to employees, so you wouldn't be worse off (actually the insurance is cheaper). Yes, there's issues with wait lines but people are not going bankrupt and get the basics for free.
The argument for universal basic income, housing and healthcare is dead simple: if government can support that for convicts it should do that too for people with income less than a certain threshold. It was 100% achievable in 1990s and doubly so today. Only if government cuts its war and expansion budget a little bit.
Considering convicts are very low percentage of the population that is a very argument. I can keep a dog alive but I can't keep 100 thousand alive at once
3% of USA population have been in jail at one time. There are 1.2 million prisoners in total. This number is comparable with the number of people in need for financial aid due to unemployment. Increase financial security of people and likely the number of incarcerated will go down similar to how it is in Scandinavian countries. Also keep in mind that America's incarceration rate is one of the highest in the world. And a cost of prisoner is more than feeding, housing and providing medical help: you have to maintain large prison facilities, keep guards and as another consequence of large number of inmates: large police and judicial system, or more judges and lawyers who are feeding from this system.
We need an affordable healthcare. That’s all.
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Where’s the “No - and the current system is a mess” option? It’s not a binary choice between universal healthcare and keeping the current system - which when it was passed 13 years ago I was told was more or less perfect and would ensure near-universal health care, bring costs down, save patients money, etc., none of which turned out to be true.
I don't think anyone ever claimed ACA was a perfect solution. It was about making incremental progress
PPACA was not a compromise with Republicans. None of them voted for it. It was a compromise between Democrats and other Democrats. And its promises fell flat, just like true universal health care systems in other countries fall flat and are getting even worse over time (see: Canada, France, UK, etc.) despite the indirect subsidies they get from Americans bearing the cost of medical innovation. Things are getting worse here, too, with providers rerouting patients to PAs and NPs instead of MDs, and insurance companies denying treatments they shouldn’t and strangling providers with red tape as they try to get their patients the correct treatments. Current system sucks. Old system sucks. And yet a single payer system would be even worse, not necessarily so on its own, but considering the knock-on effects on medical innovation, access, moral hazards, and the larger economy.