An insurance based healthcare system demands that either:
1) those without insurance suffer
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2) insurance payments are mandatory
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The first is inhumane, the second is basically the same as a tax, except a proportion of contributions are creamed off as tax.
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America seems to have managed to build a system that has the downsides of both. Nice one, guys.
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They seem willing to pay a lot more just to ensure that nobody gets anything free that's not literally life or death.
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Actually even if it is a life or death issue, v people will basically say "well, you should have got rich before you got ill."
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Pay more for less, but then the entire point is to enrich the insurers paying their politicians.
It's not exactly subtle.
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But people with nothing like that kind of wealth support it. Jealousy of people with far less than you is confusing for me.