The problem is that Americans pay both taxes and these outrageous rates for medical. People throw around the oh it’s just in your taxes as if Americans don’t also pay taxes. Ours just get wasted on useless fucking defense contracts
That’s why it’s cheaper though, and why you also don’t go broke if you’re poor and have health issues.
Per capita, American spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world, and that’s including all the people that leave things untreated because they can’t afford treatment. It’s not more expensive because the care is necessarily better than other countries; it’s more expensive mostly because of a lot of overheads in the US system. Paying for basic health care as part of taxes usually also means that it’s a single-payer system, meaning the government negotiates pricing for the entire country, rather than having lots of insurance companies that each do that separately (usually including a healthy profit margin for themselves). That’s one reason why medicines are so much cheaper in other countries.
I’ve got to be honest, as a fellow American with chronic health problems, that seems dirt cheap for a diagnosis.
As a Canadian it’s horrifying.
Anything above zero for cancer checkups seems way too high for me, from Spain.
But they’re very important, so people are more likely to pay for them. America! Lol
You still are paying for it but its taxes I stead of insurance
The problem is that Americans pay both taxes and these outrageous rates for medical. People throw around the oh it’s just in your taxes as if Americans don’t also pay taxes. Ours just get wasted on useless fucking defense contracts
But not actually defending anyone
That’s why it’s cheaper though, and why you also don’t go broke if you’re poor and have health issues.
Per capita, American spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world, and that’s including all the people that leave things untreated because they can’t afford treatment. It’s not more expensive because the care is necessarily better than other countries; it’s more expensive mostly because of a lot of overheads in the US system. Paying for basic health care as part of taxes usually also means that it’s a single-payer system, meaning the government negotiates pricing for the entire country, rather than having lots of insurance companies that each do that separately (usually including a healthy profit margin for themselves). That’s one reason why medicines are so much cheaper in other countries.
I pay less taxes than the average American, therefore my healthcare is free for me in comparison. I also don’t pay for private insurance either.
Americans pay more in taxes towards healthcare than any other country, and then pay for private healthcare on top of that.