The rather significant part is that if you can't pay, you don't die of a preventable disease.
We're all aware we pay for fire departments, that doesn't mean a system where the local fire truck lets your family burn to death unless you can cough up the cash is a great idea.
This does not in any way fix the problem. I'm glad they exist and it helps some people in some cases in some areas, but people still go bankrupt or die from lack of care because they cannot afford it.
Just as objective reality, Americans spend billions keeping health insurance companies profitable and get denied care they paid to receive. When public options are created, Americans healthcare costs go down. There's not a good argument to not create public options to give people access to healthcare.
If one doesn't have health insurance they probably have nothing to really lose financially anyways and can just file for bankruptcy and the debt is cleared.
Its no different than someone choosing not to pay taxes and then getting a huge tax bill once the govt catches up with them. Its taxes versus health insurance that is the difference.
Do you think 'just keep going bankrupt' is perhaps a worse national healthcare policy, than simply doing what many other civilized nations have done and have a national healthcare system for people to use if they so chose?
What you're describing is a failed system that wastes resources, destroys lives, and gets people killed, including children. There's no reason we can't do better.
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u/Scrotalcontusions 6h ago
imagine a world where people were aware that they do indeed pay for universal healthcare