The US Private Healthcare System fails again

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Originally Posted by Riot

Nobody is talking about others "picking up the tab" - it's about paying for insurance, and being covered in the event of tragedy.

Canadians each pay into their system about the percentage of their income that we do for our elder Medicare coverage. Yet they are covered 100% from cradle to grave, and we only use that same amount of money to pay for some services for those 65-68 and older.

I don't want the government to take over providing the actual health care (let that remain private), but why is our healthcare so expensive, and so much isn't paid for, and we have millions that don't even have healthcare access, when every other first world country does it more affordably, completely, and at higher quality?

Because we are the only first-world country that pays private people to insure us, and they only make a profit when they do not pay for what we are contracting! So bass-ackwards ....

We are talking about countries no larger than Texas in most cases. I have no problems with my insurance companies, they do an excellent job. I paid about $900 out of pocket for a shoulder surgery I had last year and was happy to do so. Total tab was around $22K after all was said and done.