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Although I agree that the healthcare system in the U.S. is skewed, I disagree with comparing America's healthcare to other countries, especially the countries mentioned in this post."As many of us already know, Germany, Sweden and Canada all offer free universal healthcare, and are among 11 nations who currently do the same." This is true. However, these countries are incredibly different than the United States. They can afford giving out free universal healthcare, because they don't have that many people that they are giving it out to. Out of these three examples, Germany has the largest population with 80.62 million people.
What is the United States' population?
318.9 million.
That's 318.9 million people that you want to give universal, free healthcare to.
Another country that has universal healthcare is the UK. My boyfriend is a European citizen that lived in England from 2013-14. He got hit in the head by a golf ball (his fault honestly, what's a person doing walking on a golf course?) and got a doctor's appointment about a week later to see if there was anything wrong with him. The doctor told him nothing was wrong and to check a health website if anything came up. The doctors have a set salary and also get paid much, much less than U.S. doctors, who are known to rack in the dough. (UK doctors make between 80-120,000 while U.S. doctors make between 130K-240K)(2)
I do agree, though. Our health system sucks. Having to wait up to eight hours just to get a check up is draining, but universal health care is not the shining answer we sometimes think it could be.
(1) http://www.infoplease.com/world/statistics/most-populous-countries.html
(2) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/9300823/Most-doctors-are-not-paid-six-figure-sums-figures-show.html
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