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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
I like that I have options with my healthcare, but really I could probably deal with that. My big issue is that we're already massively in debt, and a more important issue is what's going to happen with medicare in the next few years.
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In Denmark you can always buy an insurance securing that you are operated almost immediately at a private hospital. However most make due with the government run health care, because after all it's quite good. Admittedly there are waiting lists for some types of ills. And some of these waiting lists are not acceptable (fx for cancer patients). But in general it works quite adequate. Not to forget, there are a lot of benefits of treating those without insurance. Good government run psychiatric care, does reduce crime and so forth.
Don't take it as a critique of how US run things. I'm just trying to understand the reasons by the reluctance towards government health care.