• LordKitsuna@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      The problem is that Americans pay both taxes and these outrageous rates for medical. People throw around the oh it’s just in your taxes as if Americans don’t also pay taxes. Ours just get wasted on useless fucking defense contracts

    • dan@upvote.au
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      9 months ago

      That’s why it’s cheaper though, and why you also don’t go broke if you’re poor and have health issues.

      Per capita, American spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world, and that’s including all the people that leave things untreated because they can’t afford treatment. It’s not more expensive because the care is necessarily better than other countries; it’s more expensive mostly because of a lot of overheads in the US system. Paying for basic health care as part of taxes usually also means that it’s a single-payer system, meaning the government negotiates pricing for the entire country, rather than having lots of insurance companies that each do that separately (usually including a healthy profit margin for themselves). That’s one reason why medicines are so much cheaper in other countries.

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      I pay less taxes than the average American, therefore my healthcare is free for me in comparison. I also don’t pay for private insurance either.