
You’re comparing the number that combines private and public spending to an estimate of how much public spending would be in a healthcare system that still requires significant private spending (the only estimates that low make that assumption) Which specific estimate are you using? They invariably make many problematic assumptions.
i believe OP is implying that the government should just dump 4 trillion a year into blind universal healthcare which is 1. impossible because that’s over 80% of ALL tax revenue the government makes annually, and 2. stupid because even if we didn’t have to pay for healthcare many would die due to long waiting times and poor care quality which is a whole other economics thing. there’s a reason so many countries fly critical patients into america for treatment and not like the UK or smth
we all are! disability is a specter that looms over us all, because good eating and exercise will not make you immune to Permanent And Worsening Health Conditions. regular health checkups and affordable care help mitigate contributing factors (if you are in better health, some of the things that become Very Bad take longer to or are less likely to)
We get $5.3 trillion in American healthcare, which is shit due to profit-seeking on the part of conglomerates, especially drug manufacturers and insurance companies. If we were to institute laws capping profit margins on pharmaceuticals and insurance companies, costs would drop by half easily overnight. We also have a shot ton of bloat administrative jobs based on the fat created by this profit seeking, so quite a few people would be out of work for a bit. But long-term it would work better
That‘s the same thing Brian Thompson believed. Look what happened to him…. Health care is a human right because it allows people to live. If you don’t believe that… well… I‘m not going to be surprised if someone comes for your kneecaps in the near future. Because if no one deserves health care, then no one deserves good health. And in that case, neither do you.
i’m implying that the average american pays more for healthcare now because health insurance operates for profit than we would under a universal system even if your taxes go up. also your claim that if everyone had healthcare, care would be lower quality and we’d have death sentence wait times is just made up. but i’ll pretend it’s not
want to solve that issue health insurance execs feed you? invest in education, hospitals and maybe don’t be so xenophobic about foreign med students and doctors and maybe encourage that 3 simple solutions to the whole “oh well we’ll have wait in line” stupid ass argument as if waiting in line is somehow worse than being too poor to even have access to the line lol