Potemkin wrote:Look, just nationalise the healthcare system. That will solve the problem of private companies profiteering from people’s misery. The problem with Obamacare is that it wasn’t radical enough. When it comes to public health, socialism is the only humane answer.
Universal healthcare only works when the government funds and managed is it adequately. When it doesn't wait times rise, you can't find a family doctor, you're waiting 6 months to see a psychiatrist, you can't get into see a specialist, you're sitting in the ER waiting room for 8 hours, you're waiting months for an MRI or CT scan or surgery etc, you're sleeping in a stretcher in the hallway of a hospital because they won't fund the construction of hospital expansion to provide more beds and rooms.
When the government has a monopoly on healthcare if they don't fund it then there is no other option but to literally leave the country and find help elsewhere with your own money, which isn't cheap. I live in Canada so I know what i'm talking about. Quite a few of our doctors and nurses have fled to the US over the decades for more pay. Quite a few have quit their jobs and ER's have closed across the country since COVID started because the government didn't raise their pay enough to make it worth working through those tough conditions. Many small town ER's have closed because healthcare professionals don't want to move there and they don't raise rates of pay enough in those places to convince them to do so. When the next ER is an hour's drive away people are going to die.
Note I'm not arguing the US is a good system because it's not, due to the inequality in care and costs. Universal only works when managed and funded properly. Otherwise people are suffering or dying needlessly and it becomes a human rights issue. If anyone would like evidence of my claims I can provide a vast array of new articles and medical journal sources, but Google is your friend:
https://www.cmaj.ca/content/195/24/E851https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/09/15/ ... surgeries/https://london.ctvnews.ca/1-199-emergen ... -1.6674204https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal ... -1.7049741https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/it-was-th ... -1.6515414
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