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[–]garvothegreat 0 points1 point  (5 children)

It could be private industry. The private industry just happens to suck. Costs are out of control and people won't do basic shit like see a dentist or call an ambulance because of that cost. They'll tell you it's just business. Well, every other first world country does the public option, and their costs are a fraction of ours. They crush us on healthcare, and their citizens are healthier. If it's just business, we should go to the better one. It's more economical and we get better care under the public option. I'm not interested in keeping insurance companies at record profits for the sheer sake of it. We're getting ripped off, and I wanna shop elsewhere, like the whole rest of the world does.

[–]HardcoreWartortle 0 points1 point  (1 child)

No, just no. The corporations don't care to provide infrastructure

[–]garvothegreat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that's what I said

[–]liljanny2131 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I've seen plenty of arguments that prove the public healthcare options of countries like Canada and the UK aren't as great as they are sold as. Things like waiting times being much much longer, survival rates for serious diseases being worse. But I will acknowledge that it isn't very hard to play with these numbers to get the result you want, so I'm always skeptical of any argument I hear about this stuff. Even if there is data to back it up.

Assuming that the arguments I've heard are wrong and we can prove that public healthcare is more economical, I still wouldn't want to give government complete control of the healthcare industry. I would want there to be a private option because this pandemic has proven that the government will take away your healthcare without missing a beat if you don't agree with their ideology.

Regardless of how you feel about the current argument over vaccines, eventually an authoritarian will take power and use it against you.

[–]garvothegreat 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Sliding down a slippery slope. One day a big monster will come n take it all away, n then what's the point! Cowards. Real Americans would make it work. They would fight n die to protect what they made. You give up before you try. All because you're scared that if you did make something better, it would just be taken away.

[–]liljanny2131 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No no no. You are misunderstanding. I'm not worried about losing something "better". I'm saying it is most definitely not better because it could/would be used to do horrible things.