I think there is a wide variety of health service that could be offered so cheaply that I probably wouldn’t care if we offered them free. And then we could afford insurance for more expensive stuff. I get so pissy about plans to offer free health care because they never address the fact that hospitals charge $1200 to put in four stitches. It costs $600ish to have a doctor look in my kids ear and write a scrip for antibiotics. If we could offer those “routine emergency” services as cheaply as we should be then I would object much less to taxpayer funding. But we all know there would be service creep - in ten years a vasectomy would be routine and covered by the govt. And hospitals would start passing the bills and by the time I retire we would be on Elizabeth Warren’s 52 trillion dollar Medicare for all. So that’s why I would “object much less” instead of “support with my vote”
I think there is a wide variety of health service that could be offered so cheaply that I probably wouldn’t care if we offered them free. And then we could afford insurance for more expensive stuff. I get so pissy about plans to offer free health care because they never address the fact that hospitals charge $1200 to put in four stitches. It costs $600ish to have a doctor look in my kids ear and write a scrip for antibiotics. If we could offer those “routine emergency” services as cheaply as we should be then I would object much less to taxpayer funding. But we all know there would be service creep - in ten years a vasectomy would be routine and covered by the govt. And hospitals would start passing the bills and by the time I retire we would be on Elizabeth Warren’s 52 trillion dollar Medicare for all. So that’s why I would “object much less” instead of “support with my vote”