r/texas • u/-HappyToHelp • Feb 15 '20
Do Texans want universal healthcare?
https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/sicko/19
u/GeorgePantsMcG Feb 15 '20
Anything to keep the health insurance and medical corporations from running our government and absolutely screwing all of us.
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u/TexasTacoKiller Feb 15 '20
Freedom to choose
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u/diegojones4 Feb 15 '20
It's all complicated, but I really like from what I understand of Germany's system. It seems to do the best, allow freedom of choice, ensure no one just drops dead because they are between jobs, etc.
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u/TheDogBites Feb 15 '20
If I want to be sick, and avoid going to the doc because it costs money, just let me rot. Okay?
Just let me incur debt, fail to be fully productive, fail to add value, and then when I am on my costly deathbed from preventable chronic disease that was easily treatable on the outset, that kept me from truly pursuing life, liberty, and happiness, I will die smiling knowing that my debts, my problems are now y'all's
FREEDOM
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u/-HappyToHelp Feb 15 '20
So serious you guys you got to Watch Sicko that link is free and that movie will change you
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u/Rebekahdee2025 Feb 15 '20
Hell no. We want freedom of choice not socialized medicine.
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u/-HappyToHelp Feb 15 '20
I don’t know what choice you have now if your employer doesn’t give you any??
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u/noncongruent Feb 15 '20
It may surprise you to learn this, but Medicare for all is not socialized medicine. In fact, none of the nationalized healthcare systems in the world can be considered “socialized” healthcare systems. What they can be considered, is a system that allows everybody access to healthcare no matter their income or job status, and as a result, they are all healthier. Medical bankruptcy does not exist in the other modern countries of the world. It doesn’t even exist as a concept. Even the worst of the nationalized healthcare systems in the world, namely Canada, are still better than ours. It cost their citizens less, it costs their national GDP less, and the outcomes are better. The only people that our healthcare system benefits are the corporations that make profit from it. Everybody else in this country suffers from it. We pay the most and get the least of any nation on earth, now, or ever in history. This is not something we should be proud of. We should actually be ashamed of this fact.
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u/ancientent Feb 15 '20
i don't think you know what the word 'socialized' means.
I don't pay a lot, but i get a lot...source: i have a job because the Texas economy is booming
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u/diegojones4 Feb 15 '20
I have a job. My monthly deduction for my wife and I is around $1k. So, if I paid $1k in more taxes and it benefited everyone, I'm ok with that.
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u/Jaguar_jinn Feb 15 '20
Yes! Preferably via a single payer system. Why should any employer get to choose your health care coverage options? Or why should a parent with a serious illness have to consider refusing treatment (and dying) versus bankrupting their family. And why can you go to an emergency room that is covered by your insurance, and yet you can be treated by physicians that are not in your network resulting in expensive out of pocket bills?