I see people espousing the benefits of universal health care all the time. They talk about how great this is and that is, but it seems like none of them have ever lived anywhere where they actually have the system.
I lived in a country with socialised medicine for the first 30 years of my life, and it was not all it’s cracked up to be. And there are some benefits. Emergency problems are taken care of right away, and they are taken care of well. The problem is is that you have to go by the government’s definition of “emergency” and not your own. My father needed a knee replacement a few years ago, but the government did not think it was an “emergency” and they said that physical therapy and pain killers would suffice. There were 2 doctors who said he needed a replacement, but another said that it was not necessary. So he lived in pain until it was too much to take and took out a loan and paid for it out of pocket.
And for instance, I take medications for a medical condition. Some of the treatments cause males to develop breasts and others don’t. The ones that don’t cause males to develop breasts are generally newer and cost more so the government has only approved them for people who have failed other treatments. But I don’t want to develop male breasts, so I had to pay for the drug out of pocket.
I moved to the USA and I love my health insurance plan.
Are most people who hail socialised medicine as the next best thing even aware of it’s downsides? Most of them appear to have no idea what they are even talking about.

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