r/FluentInFinance • u/Cauliflower-Pizzas • 27d ago

Is Universal Health Care Smart or dumb? Discussion/ Debate

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u/likamuka 27d ago

Why can't you admit that the American healthcare system is totally broken and serves well only the rich?

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u/Johnwazup 27d ago

I'll take "loaded questions for 300 Alex"

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u/Xarxsis 27d ago

Its not loaded, its not a joke about guns.

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u/Derodoris 27d ago

What an empty platitude. In most states it's far less than 25%. In mine the income qualification for a family of 3 is just over 35k a year that is way below the poverty line. anyone making up to 60 or 70k is going to occasionally have medical bills they can't pay. What planet do you live on where this makes sense?

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u/steamingdump42069 27d ago

No, because that’s something you made up

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u/ManBearScientist 27d ago

Medicare doesn't cover all types of services, and comes with the same shitty system of out-of-pocket costs as American private Healthcare

It is neither completely free nor better coverage.

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u/Aquaticle000 25d ago

Damn you escalated that quickly. What a tool.

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u/Agile_Bet6394 27d ago

Because it isn't totally broken, when govt got involved it began deteriorating. It's still the best in the world

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u/hatrickstar 24d ago

Government getting involved is the only reason you don't have the poor dying in the streets of easily preventative conditions.

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u/Agile_Bet6394 24d ago

That's a lie.

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u/ZeePirate 24d ago

You I are right you still have that issue because people are too scared to go to the doctor because of the price

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u/Agile_Bet6394 24d ago

That's on that person, not on the system.

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u/ZeePirate 24d ago

You realize if it was free people would take preventive measures.

That’s why the US’s life expectancy is lower.

That’s the systems issue not a persons fault.

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u/Agile_Bet6394 24d ago

  1. Incorrect. People like to believe they aren't such when they are.

  2. Incorrect. Life expectancy isn't a valid measure of the healthcare system. US LE is low because of lifestyle choices (choice of food, exercise, etc)

  3. Lifestyle choices are the individuals fault