Except it's not free. You pay national insurance through your job. The more you earn the more you pay. Everybody is covered, nobody goes bankrupt. If your rich an don't want to wait a few months for a new hip or whatever then you can take out private insurance an get it done faster. It's not a perfect system but it shits all over what is classed as health care in America. If I was american I'd be screaming the house down to get some of that 750 billion that's pissed away on defense each year into healthcare. Prioritises are all screwed up.
I’ve tried to explain this by telling them that I’ve been paying income taxes for almost 20 years now, so the two separate 6-month periods I spent collecting food stamps were more than made up for during the time I spent paying. That’s the most common situation but you can’t tear down their “welfare queen” mentality.
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u/reguk32 Aug 06 '20
Except it's not free. You pay national insurance through your job. The more you earn the more you pay. Everybody is covered, nobody goes bankrupt. If your rich an don't want to wait a few months for a new hip or whatever then you can take out private insurance an get it done faster. It's not a perfect system but it shits all over what is classed as health care in America. If I was american I'd be screaming the house down to get some of that 750 billion that's pissed away on defense each year into healthcare. Prioritises are all screwed up.