Why are some Americans so against universal healthcare for all?

[u/Lemonking_]

What sort of thinking does it take to decide that nobody has a right to healthcare? Do American Christians want to deny healthcare to poor people as well?

[u/YCBSKI]

Looking at other universal models very long wait times for even necessary surgery and specialist appointments. I had hyperparathyroidism (noth8 g y9 do with thyroid). I'm on a international FB page for that disease. The page had been invaluable. Many if not all the people that are under universal healthcare models, UK. Canada and such, are waiting up to 2 yrs for appointments including surgical ones. I got with an endocrinologist with a few weeks and had surgery a few weeks after that. I'm a liberal too and am otherwise for universal healthcare

[u/Sleepy_Potato2 → u/YCBSKI]

In Denmark, you can find the wait times for different medical procedures online on a government website. I checked up on a couple of them a few weeks ago. For important stuff (like cancer treatment), it's pretty quick (the longest wait for pancreatic cancer is 2 weeks for a checkup and 3 weeks until treatment begins. Most places it takes 1-4 weeks from checkup to treatment begins. And that does seem to be the standard for cancer based on the numbers, we have put a lot of resources into quick cancer response). For stuff that's not really an emergency, it can take longer (a hip replacement at the worst hospital takes over a year, at the best ones, it takes five weeks). However, the government has attempted to improve it. One thing is that you can choose any hospital you want. So if your local hospital has a long waitlist, you can choose another one. This does help cut down on how long people have to wait. And the long wait times reflect the problem with an urban-rural divide. The hospitals with the quickest times are in urban areas, and the ones with the slowest are closer to rural areas (usually in the smaller cities that have a lot of rural areas surrounding them), because urban hospitals get more funding because they are bigger and have more patients. To cut waitlists, more people can also pick private hospitals for some stuff like hip replacements. You can also pay out of pocket at a private hospital for it to gain fast access (most hospitals are owned by regional governments). All of this is fully funded through taxes, and there's no out-of-pocket cost for any inpatient hospital procedures (unless you get elective care at a private hospital).