I never understood this because other countries have free healthcare and we don’t! We get sick and it’s expensive to even pay for anything!
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We pay nurses and especially doctors very, very well in the US.
We also allow a lot of sales reps and businesses (med equipment, pharma, etc) to turn a tidy profit.
There’s a lot of negative with that, but also a fair bit of gain in a lot of good jobs in healthcare and biotech.
Medical care in the US is for-profit. Everyone has to take their cut. Insurance companies are like middle men that really do not perform a health care function. But they make tons of money.
Our fucking government has insurance companies and drug companies in their back pocket.
Here’s a good “Adam Ruins Everything” on the topic.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeDOQpfaUc8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeDOQpfaUc8)
They don’t give any fucks about us, never have. Look back through history and read about the beginning of the industrial revolution and how the rich treated their workers before the labor unions were formed, and then after they were formed. It was horrendous! They grow up in a world that tells them that on,y they matter, then they all go to schools together, then they enter the arena and proceed to fuck everyone who isn’t one of them. Our entire system is rigged, from our entertainment that trains us to be entertained by watching rich people do shit, or that cops are heroes, Law and Order. Then they deregulate so they can find more and more ways to exploit us. Our food is shit, then it makes us sick, then we get healthcare and prescribed all these expensive drugs, then we go into debt, they create an entire business model around getting out of debt or fixing your arbitrary credit score, that they made up in the first fucking place. It is going to be take everyone to change this system. And don’t even get me started on fucking religion. Edited to add or the fucking government
My insurance provider coverage for major medical is with Chapter7, LLC. Has its disadvantages though. YMMV.
Because all the big companies donate to political campaigns so our Congress critters won’t change the law.
It’s all about the money. The rich get richer. The industry makes the big bucks, kicks back to our politicians and they keep the cycle going.
Nothing is free. Healthcare costs tax payers $$$. And here in Ontario Canada, you’d wait 7 to 10 hours to see a doctor in the ER.
Because reasonable health care prices would be socialism. We can’t have any that in our country. Then we’ll turn into Venezuela.
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Because healthcare is treated as a profit centre in the US. That means everyone gets to make money off you getting sick. The way businesses set their prices is by what the consumer is willing to pay and when it’s your health… they can set prices pretty high and what else are you going to do?
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