You GOTTA have insurance

[formernuke]

I'm lucky to as I have VA, no premiums and no co-pays for anything.

 

[Storker]

Other than the nicely healed scar that ruins my plans for modeling men's beach attire for women's magazines,

Did you have a realistic plan for that before the scar?

Asking for a friend.

 

[Storker]

A friend of ours living in Canada was diagnosed a number of years ago with stage 4 cancer. She got immediate treatment and is doing fine now. She has so far paid exactly $0.00.

Sounds like a typical situation for a seriously ill person living in a single-payer healthcare system.

EDIT: My latest emergency surgery was an acute appendectomy. Cost me exactly zero, except for the rather minor pain and the - rather minor - inconvenience. More lately, a person in my closest circle of associates underwent a cholecystectomy. With complications. Again, disregarding the personal issues, at zero economic cost. In a single-payer health system, this is one of those things for which you (grudgingly) pay your taxes. Which, for many - probably the majority, might very well be less than you would have to pay for a decent health insurance in a privately-financed health system.

 

[agilis]

Did you have a realistic plan for that before the scar?

Asking for a friend.

Being realistic about things is not my strong suit. I told a physician friend of mine that I lost the feeling of immortality I enjoyed after my bypass surgery. He said it was good that I was finally abandoning my delusions.

 

[boulderjohn]

Sounds like a typical situation for a seriously ill person living in a single-payer healthcare system.

We in America will not allow that sort of thing. We happily insist on paying 2-3 times as much for our healthcare, because what we pay does not involve that nasty word "taxes." Money spent out of your pocket or to the insurance company is fine; money paid in taxes is forbidden, even if it is less.

 

[lexvil]

We in America will not allow that sort of thing. We happily insist on paying 2-3 times as much for our healthcare, because what we pay does not involve that nasty word "taxes." Money spent out of your pocket or to the insurance company is fine; money paid in taxes is forbidden, even if it is less.

We are stupid.

 

[formernuke]

We have somehow made it to 4 pages on my phone without this getting moved to the pub, I'm shocked.

 

[Storker]

We are stupid.

Allow me to disagree. Just uninformed and chronically lied to.

 

[lexvil]

Allow me to disagree. Just uninformed and chronically lied to.

The truth is available, the stupid refuse to seek it out, willful ignorance is stupid.

 

[KenGordon]

We in America will not allow that sort of thing. We happily insist on paying 2-3 times as much for our healthcare, because what we pay does not involve that nasty word "taxes." Money spent out of your pocket or to the insurance company is fine; money paid in taxes is forbidden, even if it is less.

You already spend more in taxes per capita on health care than the U.K. does.