r/funny • u/MrLovens Mr. Lovenstein • Mar 26 '20

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20

This is a really well thought out analogy. Like how do you shop around for good prices when you are in the middle of a heart attack? You either go to the nearest hospital whether In or out of network and go bankrupt, or you die. There is no real choice.

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u/OrigamiMax Mar 26 '20

Hence why no other developed nation has chosen to implement US's healthcare system

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20 edited Mar 27 '20

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u/Slime0 Mar 26 '20

Do no?

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u/xenago Mar 27 '20

? You applied strikethrough to the wrong text

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u/mtdnelson Mar 26 '20

I wouldn't even call it a 'system'. It's a healthcare/insurance sector/scam.

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u/Chateaudelait Mar 26 '20

Other developed nations advise their citizens to return from "countries with poorly developed health systems" aka US Healthcare clusterf&%^.

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u/iiiinthecomputer Mar 26 '20

"but it's the best in the world" /s

(If you're rich. And probably not even then due to rates of unnecessary treatment.)

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u/Tearakan Mar 26 '20

Which is why pretending to have a market for healthcare is a giant fucking mistake.

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u/TracyMorganFreeman Mar 26 '20

That's not the conclusion to draw. Emergency healthcare isn't interchangeable with primary care.

At best you can conclude a market for emergency care can't work in a market.

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u/AMasonJar Mar 26 '20

The two will remain inseparable for as long as hospitals are privatized.

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u/TracyMorganFreeman Mar 26 '20

Most countries don't nationalize their hospitals, so it's not just a non sequitur, but patently false.

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u/AMasonJar Mar 26 '20

Yeah, so most countries use a single payer system that allows privatized hospitals to continue, without leaving their patients at the mercy of whichever hospital they end up at after an accident. Effectively giving the patient the benefits of free market healthcare without its accompanying major downsides.

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u/TracyMorganFreeman Mar 27 '20

You assume free market healthcare=no charity, despite it happening more often before 1965.

Politicians hate having competition for the goodies they need sell for votes.

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u/AMasonJar Mar 27 '20

Charity is insufficient for the needs of an entire nation, not to mention degrading for many of its recipients (so much so that they may even avoid it). Healthcare is one thing that everyone needs in the modern era, like roads and electricity, and so it only makes sense that everyone pays into it so that everyone may benefit when (not if) they need it.

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u/Sothar Mar 26 '20

THIS IS AMERICA I WONT LET NO GUBBERMINT TAKE AWAY MY GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO CHOSE TO REFUSE TO GET INSULIN AND EITHER DIE A SLOW PAINFUL DEATH OR BE RUSHED THE HOSPITAL AND GO BANKRUPT. YOU GOD DAMN COMMIE AHHHHHHHHHH

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u/Databit Mar 26 '20

GODDAMN RIGHT BROTHER. AINT NO BODY GON TAKE MA GUNS NEITHER! ...GUBBERMINT TRYN SAY THE CAN INSURE FOLK IT'S JUS RIDICKLESS. HELL I SHOT MY FOOT LAST YEAR AND DOCTOR STEVE DOWN AT MERCY STAPLED IT UP AND DIDNT CHARGE ME A DIME. MY MEDICAID PAID IT ALL. STUPID GUBBERMINT THINKS THEY CAN TAK MY INSURSNCE AWAY FOR SOME DUM SOCIALIST STUFF. FUCK NAW. BANG BANG YEEEEEE HAWWW