The US Private Healthcare System fails again

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Clip-Clop

I snowboard often. I live very near the most difficult and dangerous mountains in the country. If I get seriously injured and require a lot of care because I choose to risk my life for the sport that I love doing, why should I expect anyone to pick up the tab? The same way a smoker or an obese person should be responsible for themselves and the choices they make, though I would be more likely to die quickly as opposed to being a drain on society for a long time.

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 ....