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not sure why people are hating on this - the approach of the current WH has been to destroy what little remaining respect for the US that the rest of the world had.
Why Can't America Handle the Coronavirus Crisis?
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#22The elephant in the room (re: the pandemic response) is the privatized health care system. With costs so high, people will avoid treatment, and with few security nets, people will go to work sick. How exactly do you prevent a rapid spread in that situation?
Also the 50-51 weeks/year of work culture that doesn't give days off during the year.
and the lack of paid sick leave
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The costs aren't high because it's private - they're high because the heavily regulated government system has broken the market. In fact the only completely private parts have reasonable prices.
What country has a working completely private healthcare system?
> What country has a working completely private healthcare system?
Switzerland [1]. And the Netherlands has a mostly-private system [2].
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_Netherland...
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According to the German Wikipedia article every Dutch person is required by law to have a "legally defined" healthcare contract. Sounds quite different to the US system.
It sounds quite similar to the Obamacare individual mandate. Of course that's gone now...
private health insurance in the US is (even under Obamacare) expensive, and the deductibles are high if you're on those cheap plans.
Under an Obamacare cheapest possible insurance option you're not going to be bankrupted by (for example) a heart attack, but you'll still be paying the bill for a long time. That ignores hospitals like SF general that charge you directly (and are out of network) so you can still be trivially bankrupted.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
What country has a working completely private healthcare system?
> What country has a working completely private healthcare system? Switzerland [1]. And the Netherlands has a mostly-private system [2]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_Netherland...
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#27Handling it better than a lot of countries…
Better than who for example? Better than Iran? I'd certainly hope so. Other than Iran, I'd say it's too early to tell.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
What country has a working completely private healthcare system?
> What country has a working completely private healthcare system? Switzerland [1]. And the Netherlands has a mostly-private system [2]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_Netherland...
I read compulsory health insurance.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What country has a working completely private healthcare system? Switzerland [1]. And the Netherlands has a mostly-private system [2]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_Netherland...
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not sure why people are hating on this - the approach of the current WH has been to destroy what little remaining respect for the US that the rest of the world had.
Likely because having the respect of the rest of the world or electing Hillary Clinton in 2016 would have made very little difference in the face of (a) a pandemic virus, and (b) the major structural problems in the US economy that the article points to.