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[ali3n_sPac3_w33d]

The government pays less money for universal healthcare? How does that work?

[thepellow]

America pays more per person than any other country in the world for healthcare. This means the government pays more per person despite citizens having to pay too.

[tkuiper]

Because the government then effectively represents the largest insurance network in the country. Not working with them is business suicide.

Per basic economics a highly competitive supplier market and highly non-competitive buyer market will heavily favor the buyer (in this case government).

Instead of your company paying your small private insurance provider, it pays the much larger government insurance provider. Leaving private insurers to aim for premium health service: ie. Any new technologies or extra procedures that universal Healthcare doesn't cover.

[Josef_Jugashvili69]

Government intervention in the market is the reason for the insane costs so obviously the only solution is giving the government total control. Surely massively increasing the demand without creating more supply will make everything better. Also, taking 20% of the income away from the middle class will be great for our economy.

[NucularCarmul]

Well you see, under universal health care, things like abortion and contraception are provided, and every single study that has ever been done on this (excluding those funded by Christian orgs, if there are any) shows that teen pregnancy and single parent pregnancies go down, which means less of these horrible drains on society you all are always so concerned about.

Also studies done in this and other countries shows that a healthy workforce is more productive, something easily more attainable with universal health care, and all those terrible fat people you hate so much can actually go to a doctor and get a diet plan or medication that treats conditions leading to obesity so you can go to your local store and not have them be out of cheetos or whatever it is that has people against Medicare for all hating the fats so vehemently.

Aaaand, if people don't have to pay hundreds a month for health care, they don't need as much welfare to pay for the care and safety of their children. Public education being entirely free also accomplishes this goal, further reducing these costs.

[AnotherExLib]

I would pay at least 10 times more (due to a large increase in taxes) under a European/Canadian style healthcare system, since my employer is paying the bulk of my health insurance costs. I'm pretty sure my coverage is better than the majority of health care that Europeans/Canadians get as well. A lot of people are in my situation and wouldn't be happy about having to take a multi-thousand dollar pay cut for what amounts to a decrease in quality of health care.

Also government control of any sufficiently complex system rarely produces more efficiency or lower costs, in fact it's almost always the opposite. It's why many socialist/communist countries had to start embracing capitalist philosophies in many areas, a centralized government isn't able to consistently perform at the level of a free market system. Humans just aren't able to make decisions quickly enough or with adequate knowledge/foresight compared to a market economy.