Re: Re: Leaving US?  Where to
  By: Kurt Weiske to Digimaus on Sat Apr 20 2024 12:02 pm

 > I just finished my taxes and saw how much I paid for health insurance -
 > I don't expect health insurance to be free, whether paid for out of
 > taxes or paid to a for-profit enterprise that could concievably bankrupt
 > me over what should be an inalienable right.

Full disclosure, I work in the industry.

The man difference between social healthcare and private healthcare is that
social healthcare forces you to buy it whether it is shit or not. I could argue
the orthopedia units from local social healthcare suck and that I want to buy a
private plan instead. The authorities would tell me that is great, and then tell
me to keep paying the social healthcare related taxes. In effect, social
healthcare is a tool for the rich and powerful because it allows the rich to
pick the private provider of their choosing, while the people who can't pay both
the private and the social clog the latter (freeing the former).

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