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I understand it, but I think it's unfair to compare this using the current situation, because of the existence of free healthcare. I see it as a big almost-monopoly (well, it is one). The costs of private healthcare are higher *because* of public healthcare being paid with tax money. It's a huge system, and the prices of services only drop when there's a large customer base. How can there be a large customer base, when almost everybody chooses public healthcare (often without a further thought, because, eh, "it's free")?
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As far as I know, the only free services are all provided by Planned Parenthood and Women's Health offices that do free pregnancy tests and that's pretty much it. I can't think of a single thing our "public health" offices provide for free otherwise. We literally pay for everything. Everything. The hospital room, the Ambulance on the way there, all the sometimes nonconsensual scans and tests they have to perform to make sure you're in reasonable health etc
So that would be a totally understandable problem if we actually had free public health care running along-side privatized healthcare, but we don't.
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Another absurd is that profits from private healthcare go... to empower public healthcare. Through the taxes they pay. It's a battle they can't win. I don't think the high prices of current private healthcare are that high because they just wanted them to be. As I said, it's a competetive market, and public, mandatory healthcare is and never will be a fair opponent. And If you don't make money, you crashpunk and go out of business. Well, unless you're finansed by the government. This way you can be incompetent and still function.
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From what I
understand, and please please please someone correct me if I'm wrong, Canada has some form of nationalized, gov regulated healthcare and very few private healthcare options and they seem to do just fine (sans wait times, which sound like they're about as long as wait times here anyways. I've had to wait months to see a doctor for a very serious problem several times before, its not public healthcare exclusive) as far as quality of healthcare is concerned. Even the private businesses seem to flourish. So, there are ways to get it to work it just seems to be based entirely on a stupidly high number of factors.
Also I fully approve of crashpunk as a verb and swear