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Private insurance companies have earned the public’s distrust. They routinely put profitability above their policyholders’ well-being. And a system of private health insurance provision also has higher administrative costs than a single-payer system, in which the government is the sole insurer.
But the avarice and inefficiencies of private insurers are not the sole — or even primary — reasons why vital medical services are often unaffordable and inaccessible in the United States. The bigger issue is that America’s health care providers — hospitals, physicians, and drug companies — charge much higher rates than their peers in other wealthy nations.
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I’m an American and I have to wait months to see a specialist. I think I’ll take my chances with socialized healthcare.
Yep. Me too. Took me nine months to get a new neurologist when my old one retired.
I think it was a five month wait to see if I had cancer. Luckily it wasn’t a bad one, eh?
Are you in the USA?
My specialist won’t even see patients anymore. You have to schedule to see a medical assistant, and even that is 12 months out.
What kills me is this was literally the prime complaint against socialized healthcare. Then the covid lockdown hit and suddenly it takes 3 months for me to get an appointment with my primary doctor.
10 years before COVID I had to change primary care doctors because he was scheduled 3 months out. It got way worse after COVID, but the argument about long wait times was always overblown.