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?
Or demand cuts. If Americans aren't getting universal healthcare, stop charging for universal healthcare.
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?
Or demand cuts. If Americans aren't getting universal healthcare, stop charging for universal healthcare.
You're making my point for me. Why are the insurance companies to blame when the real problem is the incompetent government who is already getting most of the money? It's taking the money, it's spending the money, it's just not actually doing the job the money implies.
The key here is the per capita government spending is already the same or much more. Whining about NATO doesn't mean anything when the US is already taxing and spending the money. If the US spent significantly less public money on healthcare than other countries I could understand, but it's not.
Scale helps not hurts in this case. In Canada one of the big problems in healthcare is that much of the country is super remote and some of the lowest population density out there so there's a huge number of people who need a charter plane just to have a check up, and so many people are incredibly expensive to the system compared to a higher density country. Canada deals with scale by giving the money to provinces (and it's bigger than the US by land mass)
The key here is the per capita government spending is already the same or much more. Whining about NATO doesn't mean anything when the US is already taxing and spending the money. If the US spent significantly less public money on healthcare than other countries I could understand, but it's not.
Scale helps not hurts in this case. In Canada one of the big problems in healthcare is that much of the country is super remote and some of the lowest population density out there so there's a huge number of people who need a charter plane just to have a check up, and so many people are incredibly expensive to the system compared to a higher density country. Canada deals with scale by giving the money to provinces (and it's bigger than the US by land mass)
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