> Universal healthcare doesn't change the overall cost
I get the sense I'm probably preaching to the choir here. But, the U.S. spends almost 2x what comparable countries (with universal healthcare) spend on healthcare. And we get worse than average results on virtually every measure.
This, of course, makes sense. When you're running healthcare as a for-profit business, part of our expenses are... profit to pay out shareholders. And advertisement budgets. And middlemen (insurance). And employees to do things like decline coverage. Medical employees to deal with insurance companies declining coverage. Etc. etc. There's a whole industry that only exists to support our private healthcare system that would cease to exist in a universal healthcare system.
I get the sense I'm probably preaching to the choir here. But, the U.S. spends almost 2x what comparable countries (with universal healthcare) spend on healthcare. And we get worse than average results on virtually every measure.
This, of course, makes sense. When you're running healthcare as a for-profit business, part of our expenses are... profit to pay out shareholders. And advertisement budgets. And middlemen (insurance). And employees to do things like decline coverage. Medical employees to deal with insurance companies declining coverage. Etc. etc. There's a whole industry that only exists to support our private healthcare system that would cease to exist in a universal healthcare system.