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Some of u have never given birth, broken a bone, or watched a loved one waste away from an illness, and that’s fine! But I think you should 🤫 in regards to how awesome our healthcare is
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Anonymous 53w

As an econ major, the whole notion that capitalism makes our healthcare better because of patents incentivizing innovation is a joke. There’s no excuse for it at this point. Switching to a public system would have minimal impact because the increase in taxes disappears with the money saved on premiums. Insurance companies cannot deny coverage under the ACA so they spread risk with a large base of clients.

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Anonymous 53w

It’s funny because the US ranks low on healthcare among developed nations

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Anonymous 53w

you’re right. everyone should have to watch someone in their family die of cancer in Canada bc the government figured they’d spent as much as they could on a single citizen and weren’t gonna treat with the chances of survival being so low either way

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 53w

Are we talking about Canada?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 53w

the cool thing about being a different country is even if we adopt universal healthcare, we can look at the drawbacks of other nations’ implementations and tweak ours so that doesn’t happen.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 53w

The ACA already showed that without mandatory insurance, most people would only get it when they become ill. As for innovation, just fucking look at the defense sector. Contracts would go so god damn crazy in the medical field compared to patents. The US government could put a contract for a cure for cancer and that shit would be found. We built the most dominant fighter jet in the world. After rumors of a Russian superjet, we created a new jet that beat 5 of the previous jets in field testing

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Anonymous 53w

Madness! I hope you’re recovering well, #5 ❤️‍🩹

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 53w

And yet some people refuse to read the data 🙄

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Anonymous 53w

and I’m sure this is implied in your comment, but to spell it out for the dummies if you weren’t able to get your surgeries, the disability from your chronic knee issue would certainly limit your job opportunities.

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Anonymous 53w

yeah, im from a similar situation. I had back surgery for really severe scoliosis at 15, and though it was technically “elective”, my back was so bad that it severely limited my lung function and constricted my heart. without insurance we would be over $200k in the hole, and without surgery I would be too disabled for many jobs

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 53w

I didn’t know that UnitedHealth was the Canadian government! Strange

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