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 1 month ago
I’m pretty sure private insurance exists in most countries with universal healthcare.
Rothe@piefed.social 1 month ago
BillyClark@piefed.social 1 month 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 1 month ago
Learning would imply Doing Things Differently and we can’t have that now can we?
Taalnazi@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
It does, and it’s the first step in destroying national health care.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah, and it’s a scourge in those places too
Dagnet@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Is that some kind of Catholic thing?