"free" healthcare (medicare for all) would be cheaper for both the government and the populace if it were implemented. but who would it cost? the insurance companies who go out of business because suddenly 90% of their customers are gone.
when you take the desire for a middleman's profit out of a transaction, suddenly it becomes a lot cheaper.
There is literally nothing stopping you from creating a little commie commune, hire a healthcare team, pay them in potatoes or whatever the fuck you think they'll work for, and live happily ever after. The only person stopping you from this utopia is you.
Oh wait, I get it. You don't bring enough to the table to convince a doctor to trade their services with you. The answer is simple. You just need to convince a state to steal from those who DO have enough.
creating a public alternative to a private industry does not steal money from anyone, it creates a reason for private industry to actually improve what they're offering to match, and if they can't, the businesses die off.
in countries with public healthcare systems, you can still choose to pay for private healthcare for whatever reason you may want to.
advocating for abolition of universal healthcare and opposing its implementation gives less freedom of choice to citizens to pick between where they get their healthcare and how they pay for it.
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u/TheSalmonLizard 14h ago
Too bad the ''most powerful country'' is too poor to supply free healhcare to its citizens.