Wait, you’re telling me the American people have an unfavorable view of a healthcare system that costs significantly more than that of any other OECD nation, while having some of the worst healthcare outcomes? Bizarre.
The slaves are unhappy with their rations.
That’s because the American health care system is by and large run as a for-profit enterprise, and that kind of thing as we well know always eventually devolves into a race to the bottom to maximize profits at the expense of everything else until it collapses.
But in this case, “at the expense of everything else” is not churning out lousy hamburgers or making gaming keyboards that break 2 days out of warranty. Rather, people don’t receive competent health care, don’t receive care soon enough, or just don’t receive care at all and in some cases die. All for a buck.
I know that’s not necessarily the correlation the article is trying to make with its survey, but I’ll bet you a nickel it’s the majority of the root cause of the outcome in any case.
In other obvious news: Most Americans hold an unfavorable view of child murderers and rapists
À lot of Americans hold a favorable views of rapist though, they even want one president
I get to pay 4k a year, just to be able to be charged only 6k out of pocket. After that 10k, I still would owe 10% of every charge after that.
Or I can pay 2k a year for the privilage of being charged a little over 8k out of pocket. After that, I’d owe 20% of everything after.
So every year, I get to gamble my prospective income on how much healthcare I think I’ll need. I want to save on monthly costs? Hopefully nothing emergent happens. Expecting a procedure? Now I’m out a few extra hundred a month just so I don’t have to pay more than 10% after already paying 6k.
All this is assuming I don’t get denied coverage and have to foot the whole bill anyway. I need to see a specialist, though, and the only one nearby isn’t in my network. I gotta drive an hour and a half or pay 100%.
I’m paying more than the savings I’m able to put away to assholes who own yachts bigger than the house I rent.
Who would view this system as favorable?
Fifty-three percent of respondents hold a “very or somewhat” unfavorable view of the system, while 40 percent hold a “very or somewhat” favorable view.
I swear to God, you could ask “Do you enjoy being hit in the face with a hammer?” in a poll and 30% - 50% of my countrymen would answer “yes”. At least one third of this country lives in a completely different reality.
