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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.
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.
I think it was a five month wait to see if I had cancer. Luckily it wasn’t a bad one, eh?
