Fo is example : UK your taxes pay for it. In Germany your employers and yourself fund the trusts.
It’s not free. In the US it’s upfront and privatized and that’s what makes it expensive to the patient.
A 2,000$ Colonoscopy could be 300$ to the patient in the US but you won’t see that upfront in the UK or Germany but you’re paying the cost passively.
Yes, it’s fucking expensive because private insurances run the system. Nationalized Healthcare would be a tax based system with negotiated rates by the government and the hospitals, pre-set like your prices at a coffee shop and that’s the set rate you’re paying through taxes.
Same with Germany except it’s a social fund that everyone’s paying.
it’s not fuckin’ free
MBech@feddit.dk 4 days ago
No one has said it’s free. I however have said that running it through taxes with no private doctors or insurance makes it a hell of a lot cheaper, because you cut out a lot of greedy business people whose whole purpose in life is to deny you care.
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Maybe not on this post but when the topic of Healthcare and insurance comes up there’s still a lot of delusional people out there that do think it’s free, like, “free college,” initiatives that are income based.
We should be for the revamping but we shouldn’t be for spreading the misinformation that it’s free.