Agree with your assessment regarding the badly broken healthcare system in the US as compared to the other developed countries in the world. One problem with that. The governments in those other developed counties have a BASE tax rate of right around 50% for their citizens to fund their working healthcare system and also have additional taxes on top of that. That tax rate will never fly here in the US in order to improve our healthcare system. It is about money. It’s about how our Industrial Healthcare Complex can never get enough of it. It’s called GREED, at the expense of their patients welfare. Money overrides patient care.
The point that I am making in the article is simple. Taking basic healthcare coverage from poor people will cost everyone twice as much. It you don't get simple inexpensive care for blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol you go on dialysis, develop heart failure, and go in a nursing home. NO ONE WINS!!! It costs everyone more
Excellent analysis of our broken system. I know people state that the taxes needed to create a system like other nations is too much and wouldn’t fly here, however, what % of pay do we pay for our insurance from our employers? The hundreds of dollars that are spent by my family every month for our coverage would disappear, replaced by a tax instead. And we should have lower copays and deductibles too, which again puts money back into peoples pockets. If so many other countries can do it and do it well, there is zero reason why we can’t.
it’s not a design flaw it’s a perk. they don’t want poor sick people. and they don’t want poor healthy people.
Agree with your assessment regarding the badly broken healthcare system in the US as compared to the other developed countries in the world. One problem with that. The governments in those other developed counties have a BASE tax rate of right around 50% for their citizens to fund their working healthcare system and also have additional taxes on top of that. That tax rate will never fly here in the US in order to improve our healthcare system. It is about money. It’s about how our Industrial Healthcare Complex can never get enough of it. It’s called GREED, at the expense of their patients welfare. Money overrides patient care.
The point that I am making in the article is simple. Taking basic healthcare coverage from poor people will cost everyone twice as much. It you don't get simple inexpensive care for blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol you go on dialysis, develop heart failure, and go in a nursing home. NO ONE WINS!!! It costs everyone more
Excellent analysis of our broken system. I know people state that the taxes needed to create a system like other nations is too much and wouldn’t fly here, however, what % of pay do we pay for our insurance from our employers? The hundreds of dollars that are spent by my family every month for our coverage would disappear, replaced by a tax instead. And we should have lower copays and deductibles too, which again puts money back into peoples pockets. If so many other countries can do it and do it well, there is zero reason why we can’t.