Potemkin wrote:In the UK, there is both a nationalised health service and private medicine. You can beat the NHS queues and waiting lists just by paying. That option always exists.
That's 2-tier healthcare where having money gets you better service and health outcomes. Doesn't exist in Canada, and the public is against it because it creates inequality. But maybe it gets better outcomes, I have no idea.
Socialising the health service doesn’t close off options, it opens them up.
How does a single-payer fully socialized system open options? You're limiting options in order to provide equal care to all where those with money can get better care.
And, if it’s properly funded, it’s a more efficient system. How much does the USA spend on health services per capita, and how much does the UK spend? And what are the relative outcomes, for an average person?
I'm not arguing that full private is better than universal, I'm just arguing there's still problems with socialized systems. The problem is there's nothing to force governments to fund the healthcare system adequately. Voters flipping between 2 or 3 parties where none of them want to fund the system properly because raising taxes is political suicide isn't working in Canada. The governments are already hemorrhaging debt. People want the socialized system but also don't want to pay for it.
Ontario, Canada's largest province, is the most indebted sub-sovereign borrower in the world. Canada as a whole has the same population as California but Ontario alone has more debt than Cali. Providing healthcare for all is very expensive.
Canada is now implementing a national socialized pharmacare, dental care, and childcare programs, but they don't even have enough money at the moment to pay for basic healthcare services. Good luck paying for everyone's prescriptions and daycare.
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All of a sudden these pro-Palestinian campus protestors gladly support illegally occupying land that doesn't belong to them, and enforcing checkpoints, blockades, and ethnic apartheid. Some of them even openly support genocide.