Still, cost can be put under control. Here in the "outside world", we mostly have universal government funded care with country to country agreement for travelers and people living outside of their origin country boundary.
This is not "free", far from it, but, first, by taking no margins and then having tougher cost review for infrastructure/equipment purchase help reduce the cost. Then using generics drugs instead of branded ones by default also help. Remember, many hospital and doctors have official or under the table deal with private providers.
Then there are side benefits. People live longer and healthier. Their kids don't have to live in fear of having to spend 100k$ if their parent felt ill. My grand mother (91 years old) broke her arm and pelvic bone a few weeks ago. Of course, at her age, it wont heal, so it had to be replaced. How much would it cost in the US? 200 big ones (including a month or so of hospitalizations, the 2 surgery, the drugs and follow up). How much stress would it put on my family on top of the accident?
At some point, even for those who can pay, some level of social security, both health and monetary one reduce uncertainty and reduce crime rate. To some point, I understand US mentality on this. I tried to create startups a few times, it seem a lot harder here than everywhere else. It is not even socially acceptable to both succeed and fail. If you succeed, then you are a greedy asshole and if you fail you are a loser. But even giving that, I still think having universal health care and the other "big government" goodies is a good thing.
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Still, cost can be put under control. Here in the "outside world", we mostly have universal government funded care with country to country agreement for travelers and people living outside of their origin country boundary.
This is not "free", far from it, but, first, by taking no margins and then having tougher cost review for infrastructure/equipment purchase help reduce the cost. Then using generics drugs instead of branded ones by default also help. Remember, many hospital and doctors have official or under the table deal with private providers.
Then there are side benefits. People live longer and healthier. Their kids don't have to live in fear of having to spend 100k$ if their parent felt ill. My grand mother (91 years old) broke her arm and pelvic bone a few weeks ago. Of course, at her age, it wont heal, so it had to be replaced. How much would it cost in the US? 200 big ones (including a month or so of hospitalizations, the 2 surgery, the drugs and follow up). How much stress would it put on my family on top of the accident?
At some point, even for those who can pay, some level of social security, both health and monetary one reduce uncertainty and reduce crime rate. To some point, I understand US mentality on this. I tried to create startups a few times, it seem a lot harder here than everywhere else. It is not even socially acceptable to both succeed and fail. If you succeed, then you are a greedy asshole and if you fail you are a loser. But even giving that, I still think having universal health care and the other "big government" goodies is a good thing.