Unpopular opinion probably, but healthcare should be mandatory and free (collectively paid by our taxes), like in other countries. The problem is it's not currently possible because of the insurance and pharmaceutical mob that is controlling the industry. The whole healthcare needs to be rebuilt from scratch to not revolve around private insurance, currently it is probably the biggest and most corrupted swamp of them all. Of course it is not going to happen anytime soon, so without that we can forget about free healthcare, it's just a cover for paying more.
Take it from me chief, public healthcare is a fucking scam. I have both parents currently dying of terminal illness, both been completely underserved by the healthcare system, both had to pay out of pocket for proper healthcare after a life of inflated income taxes from bloated healthcare systems. My mother had to chase up her own chemotherapy appointments three seperate times because they 'forgot' or 'there was an error in the system'. All you do with public healthcare is fund obese diabetics to keep eating shit, mongoloids to have more mongoloid children who all sit on welfare, and lazy fucks who keep claiming illness to game the system for medication. In a capitalist system, you maintain the means to improve your life to the point you have the wealth available to buy a relevant healthcare service, but with free healthcare everyone pays for your bad choices, just like in the justice system, the welfare system, financial system etc. Make good choices, and accumulate the wealth you need to stay healthy, much like you would to stay living in a nice place, holiday where you want etc. This is in Australia & NZ btw, so pretty established first world economies. It just doesn't work. I do believe we need systems in place to offset healthcare costs for retarded & disabled people, vets, and congenital illness though.
Yep having too much government funded stuff takes away personal responsibility, which is something that gets grossly overlooked in this day and age of government intervention.
For example in Australia we have the medicare levy which is 2% of your taxable income, then on top of that if you're single and earn over 90k a year without having private health insurance your medicare levy is 3-3.5%
Then if you don't want private health insurance before the age of 30 and take it out later in life you pay an extra 2% on the premium for every year past 30 you didn't have private health cover.
For someone like me who takes their health seriously and is as healthy as possible with no underlying conditions, these rules are extremely annoying.
There should be some safety net for people who can't provide for themselves but government providing for everyone creates a dependent society
Unpopular opinion probably, but healthcare should be mandatory and free (collectively paid by our taxes), like in other countries. The problem is it's not currently possible because of the insurance and pharmaceutical mob that is controlling the industry. The whole healthcare needs to be rebuilt from scratch to not revolve around private insurance, currently it is probably the biggest and most corrupted swamp of them all. Of course it is not going to happen anytime soon, so without that we can forget about free healthcare, it's just a cover for paying more.
Take it from me chief, public healthcare is a fucking scam. I have both parents currently dying of terminal illness, both been completely underserved by the healthcare system, both had to pay out of pocket for proper healthcare after a life of inflated income taxes from bloated healthcare systems. My mother had to chase up her own chemotherapy appointments three seperate times because they 'forgot' or 'there was an error in the system'. All you do with public healthcare is fund obese diabetics to keep eating shit, mongoloids to have more mongoloid children who all sit on welfare, and lazy fucks who keep claiming illness to game the system for medication. In a capitalist system, you maintain the means to improve your life to the point you have the wealth available to buy a relevant healthcare service, but with free healthcare everyone pays for your bad choices, just like in the justice system, the welfare system, financial system etc. Make good choices, and accumulate the wealth you need to stay healthy, much like you would to stay living in a nice place, holiday where you want etc. This is in Australia & NZ btw, so pretty established first world economies. It just doesn't work. I do believe we need systems in place to offset healthcare costs for retarded & disabled people, vets, and congenital illness though.
Yep having too much government funded stuff takes away personal responsibility, which is something that gets grossly overlooked in this day and age of government intervention. For example in Australia we have the medicare levy which is 2% of your taxable income, then on top of that if you're single and earn over 90k a year without having private health insurance your medicare levy is 3-3.5% Then if you don't want private health insurance before the age of 30 and take it out later in life you pay an extra 2% on the premium for every year past 30 you didn't have private health cover. For someone like me who takes their health seriously and is as healthy as possible with no underlying conditions, these rules are extremely annoying. There should be some safety net for people who can't provide for themselves but government providing for everyone creates a dependent society