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As someone living in socialized healthcare, and who has lived with socialized healthcare in about a dozen countries, just a reminder:
Socialized Healthcare is a broken and backwards system
inb4: No I am not promoting the american healthcare system. It may fix or address the parts that are broken in socialized healthcare, but it has its own problems… There are solutions (though no one talks about it) that doesnt resemble either of these failed systems.
Problems I have repeatidly faced both here and in other socialized health care countries:
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Abusive wait times leading to unnecessary suffering and in my case surgery that wouldnt have been needed if I had prompter care.
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Lack of access to many prescriptions - (I have had at least a dozen medicines I couldnt get because the cost would be too much of a burden to a socialized system).
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Monopolies making unfair and abusive rules to line their pockets at the expense of patients (A good example of this is melatonin being a prescription in Israel due to a pharmecutical monopoly).
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Lack of privacy / anonymity - Since everything is registered through centralized systems (usually) there is no way for you to hide or keep private your medical records. In the USA I would pay cash for prescriptions I dont want on record, not really an option in socialized systems.
@freemo The big monopoly can be doctors. The Canada system had the toughest time breaking that. Those who weren’t happy went to the States. Now the US has a monopoly of doctors and lawyers. Combined, they jack up the price of drugs by a huge amount, to deal with liability claims. The drugs are cheaper in Canada because of the legal system. That said, many clinics for specialized service (colonoscopy) are private and charge the health care system less than hospitals. And you can hop onto the big stick faster….
