an additional hateful side of the US private healthcare system, is the number of people who cant afford insurance, and rely 100% on the cover as part of their employment, resulting in people being afraid of losing their jobs and their healthcare at the same time.
I often hear people in the US talking about "choice" and not wanting the government to make healthcare decision for them, and to some extent they have a point, but the only choice they have is which hospital is going to rinse them of $100k if they are unfortunate enough to need medical intervention. They other point they try to make is that why should their money pay for medical treatment of other people who arent paying as much as they are. and there is no response that doesn't include lots of swear words.
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