I wouldn't expect anything else from a Trump Policy - everything he does is to feather the nests of his wealthy supporters. I guarantee this trump-care policy was suggested and supported by health insurers.

This is the biggest lesson I've learned in adulthood. As a high schooler I said many things like "just go fix it".

Problem is there's always someone who will happily take advantage and ruin something that should be a good thing.

Damn you beat me to it! Take your upvoter and be proud...

The entire argument about universal healthcare taking months to see a doctor is doubly trash because it took me that long to see a doctor in the US anyways. I had to plan my general practitioner visits out 3-4 months in advance and I was on meds that needed represcribed every three months so some months I simply missed it because how long the waits were

Absolutely unrelated, but you mentioned being from Slovenia and it reminds me of a kid I work with (in the US.) When he was 4, I showed him a map of the world. Out of all the places on it, he zeroed in on Slovenia and asked, "What's that?" I told him, "That's Slovenia." Something about your country caught his attention, I can't explain it.

The kid's an information sponge. Ever since then, when I mention things about the rest of the world (countries, flags, time zones, etc.) he becomes curious about Slovenia.

So yeah, your country has a special place in a random little boy's heart. I just wanted to share that.

Yeah, the US actually pays more PUBLIC funds per person than most other nations. Then the private cost on top - all for worse health outcomes.

We need more Luigis just from a financial perspective.

as almost every other country’s systems show

You can take out the "almost" here. Literally every other country on Earth pays half or less per capita than what we pay in the US, and this has been the case for decades.

UNH, CVS, ELV and CI share holders disagree with you and thanks to the SCOTUS Citizen United decision they have to money and the legal framework to legally bribe politicians. I'll suggest to invest in those companies rather than flight them.

I looked at an apartment once which was the upstairs of a house. Dogs had eaten large chunks out of the bedroom doors and there were two giant piles of dog shit left in the kitchen. The owner was enormous and unable to climb stairs so she hadn't seen the state of the place after the previous tenants had moved out. After I told her what the situation was, she said if I cleaned it up myself she would knock off $200 ... from the security deposit. Get fucked.

His daddy was exactly that. A slumlord. Rotten apple from a rotten tree

Because "value" must be created and extracted, doesn't matter if that means people can't afford insulin

Those poor corpos won't be able to afford to sex traffic kids without those billions of dollars.

In Australia we have pretty good public health care. IDK what "universal healthcare" is exactly but everyone gets treated for free for most things.

We also have private health insurance. The relationship between the public and private systems is complex but the main difference for most people is wait times.

I know someone with a back injury that causes constant pain, they manage it with prescribed opiates. The problem is it's not life-threatening so they're not a priority for triage. They're about 1 year through a 4 year wait. If they had private insurance they could probably have the surgery in a few months.

Weirdly, they could start a private health insurance policy, serve the 1 year exclusion for pre-existing conditions, and get their back fixed - I don't know them well enough to ask why they don't do that. Anyway.

There's also a problem in my state where the hospital system is getting "clogged up" with people who should be in aged care facilities and so on. If you have a car accident and break your leg, if you don't have private health insurance an ambulance will take you to the nearest public hospital. In some cases there's a queue of ambulances parked up outside. An ER doctor will still come and check on you, just to make sure you're not dying. This wouldn't be a problem if you had private health insurance and were taken to a private hospital.

That said, there's no private hospital within 400km of where I live. I have private health insurance but I can of course still go to the public ER. I don't have anything bad to say about them. They're great really and I've never had to wait an unreasonable amount of time.

That said, the cost is no where near what others are saying it costs in the US. We pay $400 AUD a month for our whole family, but that includes a lot of extra non-hospital stuff like dental and glasses. That works out to about 3% or 4% of an average family income.

People are very bad at setting aside small amounts of money to save for large purchases. Especially when that purchase is "one day I might get real sick". That is insurance.

But that is also taxes, so we should just pay those and get healthcare for free.

Now now, why would you only increase it by the amount the government will give you, you clearly dont have what it takes to be a CEO. If everyone would get 20k. Increase the price to 25k

Bingo. Socializing profits or whatever this is called…”neoliberalism” “private public partnerships” is exactly what destroyed everything good about western society.

Circuses are cheap, bread is expensive

Absolute circus.

I feel like there should still be 13 stripes

it's like putting bandages over the real issues: student loan forgiveness (instead of lowering tuition), homeless shelters (instead of rent control), food stamps (instead of a living wage), now it's a healthcare subsidy (instead of universal healthcare).

all these things are good, but could be better