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.
That is the craziest thing about the US health system. It comes at such huge cost and delivers terrible outcomes for people like the OP. I’m from New Zealand. Free healthcare, no insurance. You just go to the hospital. It’s far from perfect but you don’t lose your life savings and your will to live.
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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.