10-21-2020, 11:56 AM
(10-21-2020, 11:49 AM)PhilHos Wrote: Shhhh, don't tell the others, but I think I'm starting to become in open to the idea of a national single-payer free healthcare system. They're taking almost $200 from my paycheck every 2 weeks for healthcare. If it wasn't for the child support. I wouldn't mind as much, but with child support, health care and taxes, my net pay is less than 50% of my gross pay (like 45% or something)!
My main problem with it? The government doesn't exactly have the best track record on running a medical system. Look at how they have handled the VA, and realize that's less than 10m people. Now imagine them trying to organize/run a health system for 330m people.
Everything gets more complicated as you add people and area.
I think the better route is to do a little crackdown on things like price gouging, overcharging the insurance, and medicine patent abuse.
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