Healthcare thread

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Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

Serious question:

What’s the downside of a socialized health care system?

Your taxes go up a little, but then you don’t have to pay deductibles or premiums. Studies vary, but they all show it comes close to evening out for the average citizen. No more medical bills. No more fighting with insurance companies. No more medical debt.

So what’s the downside?

We already have socialized primary education systems, Socialized infrastructure, social security, etc. we’re all used to paying taxes that benefit society as a whole - so why is it some people are so vehemently opposed to doing the same for health care?

I fundamentally don’t understand why something which benefits EVERYONE is so controversial. So if you think it’s a horrible idea, please explain to me why you think so.


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I have a lot of money taken out of my paycheck so I have the privilege of paying an annual 4k deductible for me and my daughter. But we have BCBS, good coverage.

For my daughter first year after birth, I saw what facilities accept medicaid and they are very limited, flooded, not the best, hard to get appointments and mostly dirtier than places that only accept private health.

I am afraid I will then be waiting hours in waiting rooms with poor people and their germs and if I need an appointment for like a dermatologist ... appointments will be 6 plus months out.

My ex is on medicaid and honestly, if she needed like a derm .. it would be 6m months plus, probably never. She had to wait 5 months to see an internist. But they do some things well, she gets a medical ride to her PT appointments and now has set appointments with her internist.

As someone who makes 100k, works, etc ... I then get put in the same line as as meth heads and people who dont work, have shitty health, feeds their kids sugar crap and tend to make a zillion appointments for anything .. so when someone normal like me goes to make an appointment for something that is truly medically necessary .. I have to wait weeks or months so a meth head can get their come down medicine or an obese sugar eating cigarette smoking mom can get a bunion checked out.

/end ignorant rant but that is my worry and i imagine a lot of other peoples.and I admit it is probably mostly uneducated ignorance on my part but im being honest.

** unless you have been on medicaid in a high population area, I dont think you have a real life view of what it would be like. its pretty shitty if you need outpatient help, so most people on medicaid or no ins treat ERs like walk in clinics .. bc all walk in clinics I have been to dont accept medicaid.