Why doesn’t the United States have universal healthcare like China and Russia do?

[Anonymous]

Very bizarre.

[Anonymous]

I prefer to pick the people managing my money and healthcare.

The U. S. congress hasn't been able to manage money in paying its dept's in nearly 200 years. The specialty of the federal goverment is spending large sums of money to kill large numbers of foreigners. That same military has never passed an audit.

This is the exact same Federal Government's who's other agencies that actually deal with individuals like the IRS, FBI, EPA, DEA, etc.. are notoriously abusive and unaccountable.

The reason is simple, when you got 333+ million people spread out over an entire continent, it is basically impossible for an electoral majority to both know and care about said indiviual cases of abuse.

This is because every indiviual is invariably 1000+ miles away from an electoral majority of individuals every hearing about it. Furthermore their case of abuse is competing with hundreds of other issues every election on which we get 1 vote.

So frankly the odds of anyone in the federal goverment facing real consequences for abuse particularity abuse that is politically advantageous to the politicians in power facing consequences for said abuses is basically non-existence.

If you want goverment run services you need a small homogeneous country. So that people can both know the victims and the effects of policy changes are more uniform. Otherwise the system just breaks down into abuse like the IRS, FBI, EPA, DEA, etc...

[jshm2]

Because it is the only developed country in the world that doesn't have healthcare systems, only healthcare businesses. With most of those businesses being owned or having shares held by the people in political office. So like any business, they give less a shit about the "customer" and more about profit and investors.

It's money making gone mad. If you go to hospital with a broken arm, you don't expect a price list to how "well" you want your arm healed, based on what they can provide, your insurance covers, and you can afford! It's just fuckery of the highest order.

A few years ago a UK comedian wrote a skit about her broken leg experience. It actually cost her LESS to fly back business class to the UK, get her leg scanned and cast, and fly back to the USA, than it would have to get a scan and cast in an average US hospital!

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Health insurance hires lobbyists to make it so universal healthcare doesn’t exist or is extremely stunted (ie medicare and medicaid) so that more people will buy their insurance.

[Anonymous]

We have free healthcare for poor people, veterans and the elderly. Middle class people just have to pay the taxes for those systems and the premiums for their own insurance if they want it. I just pay cash for healthcare because insurance is worthless.

[phraseology]

It's because the United States isn't a socialist country. There is nothing bizarre about it. You sound mentally retarded.

[exitseven]

A better question would be is why do all the rich people from around the world come to the United States if they need advanced medical treatment?

[KostasKouvalis]

The US loves to march to the beat of their own drummer. They have a massive ego problem and superiority complex. Implementing universal healthcare would mean swallowing their pride

[beefcakebradybatson]

Right wing nuts and rich swine who've convinced poor white folk that we "unworthy" POC would benefit from universal health care more than they.(Bubbas, Bobby Joes, Beckys, Billie Jeans).

[monorprise]

@beefcakebradybatson If the federal goverment in question had a better track record running it's existing domestic agencies that effect individuals it would be more reasonable to expect it could manage healthcare competently.

As it stands the same goverment has not been in ever more dept for nearly 200 years, it's enormous array of domestic agencies are largely unaccountable and abusive organizations run by distantly anonymous bureaucrats.

If that goverment tried to run healthcare both they and the interested politicians who nominally employee them would no more resist the urge to abuse that power to push their own agenda and hurt their enemies than they long have with the existing agencies.

The fact that they have already abuse the power they have taken already to drive healthcare cost thou the roof by prohibiting price selection and mandating luxuries via irresponsibly broad lawfair to line their out of office pockets, only serve to illustrate where they would take it if they had more power.

In healthcare that kind of abuse isn't simply lost freedom, money, and time its lost lives.

So you will forgive me if I prefer to keep it out of their hands at all cost.

[DrPepper12]

Because of stupid decisions made during WWII to attract labor.

[seeyounexttuesday]

You want a free country to model after communist countries?

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

The U. S is extremely hyper capitalist. Everything in this country is about money and greed, not welfare of the people.

[OddBeMe]

Our economy is too invested in private insurance. It'd be way to hard to divest.

[Pterodon]

You want to pay those taxes to support it?

[Anonymous]

MONEY. And population control

[monorprise]

That is certainly the reason other countries have taken over their healthcare systems.

Its true it does work, they charge absurdly high taxes, have little to no ability to defend themselfs, while maintaining a population largely captive to their will for fear of what would happen were they to resist.

[Anonymous]

Source? Trust me bro?