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Originally Posted by Laz116
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.
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So, the wealthy in your country have access to better and more immediate healthcare than the general populace. That's one of the arguments of proponents Universal healthcare, so that the poor can have the same healthcare as the wealthy or well-off. That scenario just isn't going to happen. Those who can afford better healthcare will always get it.