Pro tip: people won’t do their job for free
PLEASE do not tell me that you think UK medical workers don’t get paid
I know they do, but it’s peanuts compared to American medical professionals.
Well yeah I’m not surprised when the average doctors office appointment in the US costs $69 a patient compared to £0 here, and that you still have to pay for doctors appointments even if you already paid insurance. They’re raking it in by ripping you off.
You’re a fool if you believe the average doctor office appointment visit costs £0. You mean your dumb ass doesn’t pay anything directly. This was @atomicfiend1945‘s point. Your visit wasn’t free. You are just under the illusion that it is because your money has been shuffled (poorly) behind the scenes in one way or another.
Considering you actually believe complete utter nonsense like “letting people go bankrupt or just die,” you probably do not understand slightly more complicated things like the third-party payer problem or price controls. This is why monopolized government and government regulated healthcare are always a disaster and generally collapses under their own constraints. It’s also why people under the nationalized healthcare system often will pay for better healthcare coverage (two-tier system) if they can or will actually travel to a place like the United States to get better, quicker care when they really need it.
I’m not saying the United States’s government-riddled pseudo private market system is ideal or perfect, but at least the doctors and patients have some say in the financial arrangement they want in the healthcare process. They decide how much care they want, by whom, and at the cost they can afford; not some bureaucrat hundreds of miles away.
The only thing advocates of nationalized healthcare actually understand is “well, I got mine, and that’s all that matters.” They have do not have the slightest clue, economically speaking, about how they are actually getting ripped off or how the system is ripping everyone else off in order to keep this bad system operating…very poorly I might add. They also talk a big game about how bad monopolies are when they’re more than happy to make the government the biggest monopoly in the land.
HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES AM I GOING TO HAVE TO TELL AN AMERICAN THAT WE FUCKING KNOW THAT “FREE HEALTHCARE” MEANS WE DONT HAVE TO PAY DIRECTLY BUT INSTEAD THROUGH TAXATION?
WE KNOW
WE KNOW
WE KNOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Yet, you still make faulty comparisons between the cost of doctors visits. Perhaps when you start being more honest about your crappy healthcare service we’ll stop treating you like an idiot. Fair enough?
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