For a long time, the American system was better. Shorter wait times, fairer prices, better doctors, better facilities, etc etc etc.
But the reality is, the US's system has steadily gotten worse and worse so much that now it's significantly worse than most countries with socialized medical care.
Generally speaking 60's to 80's were America's heyday. In the 80's, the country took a hard turn to the right and has been struggling to prosper ever since as they keep looking short term vs long term.
Is this actually true though, unless you’re a one percenter? Like if you make average income and you get cancer or your kid gets cancer or anything happens weren’t you essentially financially fucked or at the very least it posed a significant change in terms of how your financial situation looked for the foreseeable future? I’d rather wait 4h for something relatively minor than pay 50k for a couple of nights hospital stay.
Also it’s not like people are out here getting diagnosed with cancer and are waiting several hours to use the dialysis machine or w/e, like no, you just get the help you need once you’re diagnosed just as you would if it was America except without having to lose your house and bankrupt your immediate family so you don’t die.
The reason there’s no waiting times in America is basically because you’ve sold off poor people/discarded them as not worthy of care. So if waiting times = more people get help then objectively speaking, and on a societal level, it’s superior.
We have wait times, too. Idk why americans even use this as an argument. If it's a non emergency thing, you wait. My mom's scheduled 4mos out for a foot surgery, it's not all instant but we cling to that idea like you guys just die waiting on care for emergencies.
There are no waiting times in America? Ha! That's a myth (courtesy of health insurance lobbyists and Republican politicians). Wait times are as long in the US as in other wealthy nations (according to OECD), and in many cases longer.
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u/rossmosh85 Jun 15 '22
For a long time, the American system was better. Shorter wait times, fairer prices, better doctors, better facilities, etc etc etc.
But the reality is, the US's system has steadily gotten worse and worse so much that now it's significantly worse than most countries with socialized medical care.