> tell me then, why do a bunch of my US
friends not have health insurance? even
the ones who left their jobs during the
pandemic?
I don't know anything about the
circumstances of your friends.
> to be frank, it sounds like your income is
too high for you to actually know what
happens when dealing with this 'patchwork'
(as you call it) shitshow system in real
life, to try to get the care you need to
survive.
Without going into my "income", it turns
out I know something about the US HRSA
system: They run clinics that can do
well providing primary care and then can
refer patients to more advanced care
when needed.
Charges vary but generally are low: At a
clinic, the really poor pay nothing. If
they have a little money, maybe the cost
is $20 a visit. With a little more, the
cost is $75 a visit.
> can you help me understand why you
posted this comment?
> If that's a correct guess, as a European
the US work standards frighten me. Health
insurance so tightly coupled to work that
if you get into an accident shortly after
being laid off and don't have (expensive)
private insurance you could be bankrupted
by it.
So, I wanted to add some information to
the issue of "bankrupted by it".
For your
> why state all these downsides and try to
play this sort of 'neutral' card by saying
"I don't know what if anything is
right/wrong"? all of these so called
reasons (or fears/scares) are just
completely irrelevant when we can see that
all other global north nations have single
payer systems.
The "fears/scares" I listed really are
"commonly voiced". Soooo, take this list
as the POLITICAL answer to why the US does
not have single payer, etc., not the
rational, economic, financial, moral,
medical, etc. but just the POLITICAL
answer for the post of user
using only what is rational, economic,
financial, moral, medical, etc. and
instead must at least include some of the
politics. Here define politics as using
false information, cherry picking
evidence, quotes out of context, lies,
manipulation to fool people!
On your post
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29474353
> tell me then, why do a bunch of my US friends not have health insurance? even the ones who left their jobs during the pandemic?
I don't know anything about the circumstances of your friends.
> to be frank, it sounds like your income is too high for you to actually know what happens when dealing with this 'patchwork' (as you call it) shitshow system in real life, to try to get the care you need to survive.
Without going into my "income", it turns out I know something about the US HRSA system: They run clinics that can do well providing primary care and then can refer patients to more advanced care when needed.
Charges vary but generally are low: At a clinic, the really poor pay nothing. If they have a little money, maybe the cost is $20 a visit. With a little more, the cost is $75 a visit.
> can you help me understand why you posted this comment?
I was responding to user
try_again
and their post at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29472346
with in part:
> If that's a correct guess, as a European the US work standards frighten me. Health insurance so tightly coupled to work that if you get into an accident shortly after being laid off and don't have (expensive) private insurance you could be bankrupted by it.
So, I wanted to add some information to the issue of "bankrupted by it".
For your
> why state all these downsides and try to play this sort of 'neutral' card by saying "I don't know what if anything is right/wrong"? all of these so called reasons (or fears/scares) are just completely irrelevant when we can see that all other global north nations have single payer systems.
The "fears/scares" I listed really are "commonly voiced". Soooo, take this list as the POLITICAL answer to why the US does not have single payer, etc., not the rational, economic, financial, moral, medical, etc. but just the POLITICAL answer for the post of user
beckman466
at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29474353
Or can't give a good, rational answer to
beckman466
using only what is rational, economic, financial, moral, medical, etc. and instead must at least include some of the politics. Here define politics as using false information, cherry picking evidence, quotes out of context, lies, manipulation to fool people!