Both my parents passed away in the past year: my dad stage 4 lung cancer & my mom autoimmune disease. Treatments were intense & expensive. We were sad that in the end we lost them. But we were grateful they received state of art medical care and we're not laden with medical debt
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The final bill for my dad's battle vs cancer was less than USD$5K, a bit more for my mom because of the experimental drugs administered. As we grappled with our grief, I was made acutely aware of the difference between having a working single payer system vs "good luck with that"
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Sorry for your losses
THIS is exactly why the US would benefit from handling health care differently
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Taiwan is not a country, please take care of your words.
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Taiwan is a country by any modern definition except diplomatic recognition--and Taiwan is doing amazingly even without that.
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“Single Payer” is a euphemism for Socialized Medicine... which is socialism for healthcare. Bad news for patients. Great news for Gov’t officials.
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How many countries that have some form of single payer are moving away from it due to dissatisfaction?
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There is indeed a lot to learn from foreign, government-run single-payer systems. From Canada to the United Kingdom and even Scandinavia, single-payer systems have proven cripplingly expensive even as they limit patients’ ability to access quality care.
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That’s a good description of the US system, if it can even be called that. I’m in an online cancer support group with a large international presence. People from other countries are aghast at the dysfunction of our health care delivery.
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Now that's a good one! "their" system is cripplingly expensive. LOL Holy smokes.
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Taiwan is not a country, but a province of China.
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This is not true based on the objective reality of the current situation on the ground.
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When Taiwan was setting up their national health service, they looked to the USA... As an example of what NOT to do.

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When USA was setting its Constitution,Taiwan did not exist as a country or "country".Healthcare existed at the time.Founders did NOT make it a duty of the Federal Gvt. So it can't ever be unless we change said Constitution.As USA is country of Laws¬ banana republic like Taiwan
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@nytimes I see a lot of people arguing over whether Taiwan is a country and in the usual trolls dissing single payer but has anyone actually clicked the link? I tried it and it took me to a story about the Pope. -
Oh good! I thought it was just me!
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I lived in Taiwan for a year. When my boss brought me to see the doctor, in a local office, that was also in a pharmacy, I was dumbfounded. Also walked into a Taipei hospital and had a mole removed in one afternoon. I don’t speak Chinese. That was a fun afternoon.
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