Should The United States Of America Get Universal Health Car

i am actually confused

how about “Should the USA get universal health care”? That title would more than fit in the limit.

Yes. People are afraid about taxes being too high but they aren't increased THAT much.

Also would you rather pay slightly bigger taxes or pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to get healthcare in case of a major injury?

Good god no. I live in the one province of Canada that actually has to pay for medical and the medical system here sucks ass. Wait times are ridiculously long and walk-in clinics close within an hour of opening due to meeting their allotted patient quota for the day, resulting in the ER getting flooded with people who don’t need the ER but have to go to the ER in order to get treated because all of the walk-in clinics are closed, which just exacerbates the wait times even further. For example, when I broke my radius clean in half a bit over 5 years ago, I got to the hospital a bit before 8pm and didn’t leave until well after 1am. In that span of time all that happened was an x-ray, a sedation so that the bone could be put back in the right place (only takes about 15 minutes total including the time taken to wake back up from the sedation), and a cast was put on while I was sedated. I spent over an hour in the waiting room before I was triaged and had my blood pressure and pulse taken. The system here is horribly inefficient, which is what happens when anyone can go to a hospital for free to seek treatment for every minor ailment. And for those arguing that my broken arm wasn’t serious enough, my dad took an axe to the knee while cutting kindling and was stuck bleeding in the waiting room for almost an hour as well before being pushed through. I’ve also seen someone bleeding from the mouth due to taking a baseball to the face after it was hit by a bag resulting in several broken teeth and a cracked jaw and he was in the waiting room for over an hour as well with nothing but an ice pack to try to alleviate the pain. It’s a horribly inefficient system and even ignoring that, there’s the issue of paying for it. To the person citing the Nordic countries, they get taxed up the asshole in order to pay for all of their free stuff. Denmark is particularly bad, with its taxes exceeding 60%. It may not be easy to understand how much money this is taking from people when you don’t pay taxes yourself, but when you do eventually start making money imagine having 60% of your paycheck being pissed away in taxes, with the remaining 40% being what you have left to pay your bills and buy groceries and whatnot. On top of that, Denmark also has extremely high sales taxes, particularly with vehicles. This vehicle tax ranges from ~85% to 150% or higher. So if you went to go buy a vehicle, the total amount of taxes would result in you paying about twice the sticker price of the vehicle, and that’s before interest off of whatever loan you took out comes into effect. The taxation required to pay for this service is insane and I doubt many people would be willing to pay that amount in taxes in order to afford it. Hell, people in the 1% don’t like paying upwards of 50% in taxes because that tax amount is straight up retarded and the idea that they should pay exponentially more in taxes by right of they’ve EARNED a lot of money is equally retarded, though I do understand that a flat tax rate straight across the board would also either bankrupt the middle class if the tax rate was made too high in order to maintain funds or bankrupt the government due to the loss of funds from reducing the higher tax bracket’s tax rate. Regardless, your average working class person wouldn’t want to pay upwards of 50% in taxes, even if it meant having universal healthcare. For most people it’d just be cheaper to pay for health insurance and for those that can’t, tough shit. They’re in the minority and they shouldn’t be dragging everyone else down so that they can go to the hospital when they get a cold. Having a competitive system through having multiple private insurance companies will necessarily reduce prices anyways.

How does Denmark spend less in healthcare (this includes taxes obviously) than private healthcare countries like the USA?

On some things you are right but I mostly disagree with what you said.

Actually, Denmark spends less on healthcare as a share of GDP (adjusted for purchasing power) than the US. And their healthcare system covers EVERYONE in their country, whereas the 27 million people in the US aren't covered and will probably have to go bankrupt if they get seriously ill or injured. Healthcare outcomes are also better which is a good measure of quality

The US is the only industrialized economy without a universal system. No economy that switched from private to public healthcare has ever decided to go back because it's always in an improvement, so what do you think the probability is that it won't be an improvement for the US?

In summary, I understand the arguments about not forcing people to buy things they don't want, and not forcing people to pay for other people's healthcare, but the most practical solution is to implement a universal healthcare system.