Brain357
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Well what countries are they coming from?Rich people come here. Just like only rich people here will be able to afford it soon.Its the assumption that the wealthiest country in the world has the best healthcare. The same assumption that drives people to go the hospital as best in the country. The reality though is much different.
Were not talking about the few with money who choose to travel because they believe something is better. Were talking about average life expectancy in each country and which countries are providing their citizens with Universal Healthcare. Most Europeans do not go to America to get healthcare. They stay in their countries and on average live longer than Americans. That last fact is by FAR the most relevant.
Let me ask you this:
Timely Medical | Timely Surgery at Affordable Prices
This is a company. It's a company operating out of Canada. The entire purpose of this company, is to setup patient, primarily in Canada, with doctors and hospitals in the US.
They charge money, obviously to provide this service.
This is an additional charge to the cost of getting whatever treatment or surgery they get in the US.
The company was started by a Canadian doctor, who was fed up watching patients die while waiting.
So my question to you is this.....
Canada has universal care, that is "free". Please explain to me how Timely medical can find enough consistent flow of customers, willing to pay thousands of dollars for surgery in the US, and to pay them to set them up for that surgery.... if those same customers can all get surgery for 'free'?
If government run health care is so great in Canada, how can this company started by a Canadian doctor, end up with thousands of customers every year willing to pay for health care? How can they find enough people willing to spend thousands of dollar for health care, to escape their Canadian system if it is so great?
Can you explain that to me?
Don't have to. These little individual examples, whether they are true or not, are irrelevant. What matters is the overall averages on life expectancy and the countries that provide Universal Healthcare. Look FRANCE, GERMANY, SWEDEN, NORWAY, ITALY etc. Most people in the top 50 most developed countries in the world stay in their own countries when it comes to healthcare. At least 34 of those countries citizens live longer than Americans on average. One's personal experience, or some off hand example will not change that reality.
France, where doctors went on strike for weeks, and people were left without care, not to mention people died of heat stroke in hospitals during a heat wave years back.
Germany, has a system of private insurance, the nearly all people are part of.
Moreover, nearly all those countries have double our tax rate.
Which is more expensive: Current insurance premiums, or a 50% tax rate on the middle class?
And yes, the fact is, if you want to support your argument, then you do have to explain why people come from all over the world from their 'free health care' systems, to pay for health care here.
If you can't, then whether you admit it, or believe it, you have undeniably lost the argument that free government care is better.
Not true. My parents go to Childrens hospital, and serve the people who are here alone, because their family can't afford to come themselves.
They not just serve lunch and dinner, but they take ill-children out on walks and to the zoo, because their middle and lower class parents, have left their children here in the US utterly alone.
Why would parents do this to their 10-year-old daughter? Because in their home countries, they are told to just go home and die.
You are making up crap, to fit your stupid narrative.
Not only that, but even if your made up BS was true......
That would clearly show a two-tier health care system. A system where the Rich escape to find better care, and the poor are doomed to suffer under the government system.
Why would a rich person spend millions going to a different country, when the supposedly equal and fair system they have is free?
Because it sucks. Not only do you doom people to a universal system that sucks... but you tax away their money to pay for that system, which makes them more unable to buy health care from a country that has good care.
The rich laugh their way to better care in the US, while the poor are taxed until they can't afford to do the same.
That's your grand system of equality?