It does. Basically all countries with universal healthcare also have a private healthcare sector. It is another ironic fact that countries with universal healthcare has more freedom of choice than people have with the American healthcare system.
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yenahmik@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m pretty sure private insurance exists in most countries with universal healthcare.
Rothe@piefed.social 2 months ago
BillyClark@piefed.social 2 months ago
In America, we don’t learn from watching others. Hell, we don’t even learn from our own mistakes.
Come to think of it, we barely even learn in the first place.
Flower@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Learning would imply Doing Things Differently and we can’t have that now can we?
Taalnazi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It does, in the Netherlands (my country), we have universal private healthcare.
We used to have universal public/singlepayer, but decades of liberal governance caused it to be privatised.
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
It does, and it’s the first step in destroying national health care.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, and it’s a scourge in those places too
Dagnet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I live in such a country and private insurance exists here, still finds ways to screw over customers. We need more CEO murders
Sturgist@piefed.ca 2 months ago
Also it’s bribes…ahem, sorry, lobby groups, are the reason why a lot of places with universal healthcare are letting those systems crumble.
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
I live in a country with free healthcare and private health insurance. I even have private health insurance. But I have it through a nun-profit organisation that pays out ninety-something cents in claims for every dollar of premiums paid. So I’m ok with it.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is that some kind of Catholic thing?