In countries with universal healthcare insurance, why does healthcare insurance exist? (because everyone pays the same price)
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Universal health care is different in every country. I live in Germany, we have to get a health insurance, but that’s the “universal” one. We have two choices, public and private, we have to choose one. Public is expensive when you are young but it stays the same price, and if your wife is not working is covered by your police with no extra payment, same with the kids. Private one is purely based on risk, so it is cheap when you are young and healthy but very expensive when you are old, and you pay more for wife and kids.
Michael Moore made that “documentary” about universal healthcare and made many people think it is for free, which is “true” in some countries, but it is actually paid with taxes (i.e. NHS). We pay for our family around 1200 EUR a month in the public system.
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