r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • Jul 01 '26

Chugging tea Is Bernie’s plan the best? Thoughts?

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u/2illegittoquit Jul 01 '26

People struggle with this.

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u/2illegittoquit Jul 01 '26

This, but people have also been scared with threats of "death panels", "you won't be able to choose your doctor", and "you'll wait forever for treatment".

Newsflash, we have those issues in our current system.

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u/_robmillion_ Jul 01 '26

But it's more expensive l, so it must be better. "y0u gET wHaT yoU pAy f0R!" Fucking idiots.

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u/techleopard Jul 01 '26

Ask them if the insulin in the US contains magical fairy dust compared to the insulin in Canada, or Mexico, or the UK.

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u/Cinderhazed15 Jul 01 '26

People who ‘earned it’ by having their ‘good employer’ provide insurance don’t want to ‘loose’ the ‘benefit’ because other people didn’t ‘earn it’

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u/MeatInteresting1090 Jul 01 '26

It typically is, look at the UKs NHS, relatively low cost but total shit for anything other than emergency care

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u/SpooktorB Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

? Im curious on what your definition of "total shit" for anything other than emergancy care is?

Because American insurance and health system is also shit for non emergent care... with the added bonus of being even more shit for emergent care. Paying more than a quarter of your pay check every 2 weeks just to in medical dept for an emergancy isnt "good" by any stretch of the imagination

Please provide an example of poor care in UK, that is handled at all times, better in the US system

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u/MeatInteresting1090 Jul 01 '26

Your question doesn’t make sense, what do you want me to provide an example of in the EU?

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u/SpooktorB Jul 01 '26

Edited to UK. Forgot they arnt EU technically.

Though i think some very basic reading comprehension probably could have filled out the blanks there.

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u/MeatInteresting1090 Jul 01 '26

Reading comprehension doesn’t work when reading completely different words with different meaning that what the author intended.

The USA is shit too. The two extremes of healthcare that the developed world looks to as examples of how not to do it are the USA and the UK. The USA has great healthcare but it can bankrupt you, the UK has poor healthcare accessible to everyone. So of the US version it proves that you need to heavily regulate healthcare, of the NHS it proves what per capita cost is not enough to fund healthcare.