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Originally Posted by dienstuhr
Well, no matter how much the end user pays, a cardiac bypass is never gonna cost $1k, or even $10k. And sometimes you can’t choose not to have healthcare, like you could choose not to fix your car... you get the surgery or you die, and it costs what it costs.
Single payer means that the people in the healthcare system are essentially government employees, and depending on your flavour of system, the govt basically determines what they earn, so in theory at least some costs can be controlled that way...
My point is essentially this: while it’s appropriate for all users to have some skin in the game, there will always be cases where a user cannot just pay their own way. Some procedures are just too expensive and many (most?) people don’t have the savings available to bear the significant cost. So you’re left with two options: private insurance (you seem not to care for that) or a public healthcare system that is not perfect either, but at least doesn’t result in financial calamity for those who are unfortunate enough to require expensive healthcare.
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And then you get the overwhelmed healthcare of Canada or Great Brittan a really long wait times for the rationed care. I can't imagine waiting for weeks or months to get a MRI or x-ray. There is no perfect system. We will always have patients like the one in Tobra's thread. We can spend many millions treating him, and it will do nothing to get him to even try a little to get himself healthier or get a job, he is too busy buying meth.