I'm pretty sure private insurance exists in most countries with universal healthcare.
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Don't forget that it also makes procedures more expensive for some reason. So until to reach your deductible you're paying more than someone who pays cash.
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We still have private in Europe. It just has to compete against going on a waiting list, instead of against other providers who overcharge and refuse treatment.
But there is in every other developed nation. But to America, the rest of the world doesn't matter so....
private insurance still exists for the very rich or as supplemental insurance.
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Should be MediCAID for all. But, they've pushed MediCARE for all as a negotiation.
A lot of people don't know the difference.
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NYT is lying. Prior to FDR the entire healthcare profession was not for profit. He and Nixon allowed for the privatization and profit extraction to be allowed.
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Even before Obama care, it was actually a better system but not much changed afterwards, Vermont had probably the closest thing I've seen to something like NHS. It was an income based health insurance. Free, or in my case $25 a month. I didn't get it since I wasn't financially well off at the time.
Then I break my leg while unemployed. EMS ride, 1.5 Million dollar surgery, in home nurse that visited, a physical therapist that visited, checkups, x rays, etc. Total cost for me? 13 cents for the pain pills after surgery. It was surreal to just go to the hospital and pay nothing.
I'm SO happy with how insurance is where I live now that I carry an AFAK with me to work in case I get hurt. Heh, food poisoning is like a national hobby now, last year I had it bad, fell over and hit my head, had a nice gash, I just said let me sleep it off.
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We need to call the institutional capitalists' bluff. Tell them single payer is a great way to prove capitalism works AND that private insurance is needed!
Create a public single payer option, and we'll all marvel as private health insurance companies innovate and justify their existence by creating better, cheaper insurance products that we can decide to buy as a demonstration of the invisible rational hand of the market! Competition! That's why we need a single payer option! If you aren't for public insurance, you don't believe in capitalism!
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If you don't, we'll kill the industry by other means.
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Oh no, my freedom of choice to pay for whatever the 2 plans my employer offers
But there's plenty of precedent in modern world history. I hate the way America is.
To think, no one would feel the sense of pride and accomplishment that comes with hitting your deductible.
A general health insurance does not rule out private health insurance at all. They can cover things the normal insurance does not.
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"Yeah they... the tend to do that"
Muricaaa!
I did not read the article. However, a statement like "there is no precedent" is value-neutral. Maybe they are saying it is a good thing?
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