Typhoon wrote:The purpose of universal health care insurance is to mutualize the risk as widely as possible across the population,
Says who.
so that families are not bankrupted by catastrophic health care costs, not to cover ingrown toenails.
Says who. Democrats will not agree with you, the sales pitch for
obamacare was much different.
The USA is the only industrialized country that I can think of, offhand, that does the reverse.
We are also the wealthiest industrialized nation, or were before
obama, and so there is no reason to follow any other country. As a result we have the best healthcare in the world.
A family must first be bankrupted due to health care costs before qualifying for the coverage the is most like health insurance in other industrialized countries.
In the US a tiny percentage of families go bankrupt because of healthcare, while across the industrialized world almost all the single payer nations are going bankrupt.
So much better to not have single payer.
But unfortunately the US already has single payer, called Medicare, and it delivers on none of the promises of single payer. That is it is going bankrupt already, it does not control costs, and it denies services when it sees fit, with no alternative for Medicare recipients. In private insurance if one company denies a certain service you at least have a chance to look for an alternative, whereas with Government Medicare you are doomed.
Also
obama cut Medicare to pay for
obamacare, dooming millions to an early death and effectively breaching the social contract of entitlements themselves, something the insurance industry cannot do.
And you have lost this debate so many times in the abstract, in the polls and at the ballot box and yet have learned nothing about it, not one dot. Breathtaking to behold.