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guffguy89 posted...

Exactly, I know families who are eligible for basically free healthcare and they barely ever have to pay anything. Doctor visits, surgeries, prescriptions. It's crazy good coverage. And if you are poor enough, you are eligible for it.

As for everyone else, and while I agree with the comment about how it shouldnt be tied to work, the fact is that nonetheless, there are a lot of workers who get decent or even what one might consider "good" or "great" healthcare coverage through work.

Thanks to places like reddit and such, Europeans/Canadians/nonAmericans are actually starting to believe that nobody here has health insurance and we are all left to fend for ourselves with thousands of dollars of debt looming if anything goes wrong or if we want to have a baby or whatever. Yes...some people do face this problem. It definitely happens here. But it's not every person. We in America know that obviously, but the narrative has been exaggerated so much, that it's leading to some crazy misconceptions from nonAmericans.

Okay but,

-Most countries extend that to everybody not just a small minority. Thats why its called universal healthcare.

-Even if you have insurance, the costs are sky-high AND at least based on my personal experience the prices of insurance itself (both through work contributions and paying individually) are actually higher than if you opt for insurance in countries with universal coverage due to said coverage driving the price down. Insurance will only cover some of the costs. The example that blew my mind was childbirth, with maternity care costing an average of $7,000 with insurance. That is unacceptable.

-And of course, the fact that it is even possible to be uninsured is absolutely disgraceful. That is tens of millions of people with no care at all. It gives a two-tiered society where a substantial portion are left to die.

Nobody thinks that no Americans have healthcare. The issue is that any Americans dont have healthcare.