Current Events > Controversial Take: Healthcare should have a cost to it, and not be free.

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or what if there was a better tax system to fund paying doctors and healthcare worker much better to attract more people to supply the demand of free healthcare

To the receiver of healthcare, there should be some per-use cost to it. It shouldnt be free, and it shouldnt be like $2000 to call an ambulance, but it should be something enough that people will think twice to using, so that it doesnt overtax the already overtaxed healthcare system. For example, if its free or like $10 to go to a doctor, then everyone will just go to the doctor for every little stupid shit.

Literally doesnt work. See Canada and UK; their healthcare system is falling apart with months of wait time before being able to see a specialist.

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For example, if its free or like $10 to go to a doctor, then everyone will just go to the doctor for every little stupid shit.

Literally doesnt work. See Canada and UK; their healthcare system is falling apart with months of wait time before being able to see a specialist.

there is a cost it's called time

no they won't what the fuck are you talking about

For example, if its free or like $10 to go to a doctor, then everyone will just go to the doctor for every little stupid shit.

If people wait to see a doctor until their health gets really bad it ends up costing more in the long run than if they're seeing a doctor regularly and can catch health conditions early when they're not as severe and are easier (and cheaper) to treat.

Brah, when I lived in NYC, I saw doctor offices crowded with people using Medicaid and my wait times were like over an hour past my appointment, every single time. Im so happy I left that hellhole of a city (though I do miss the food and broadway shows).

Literally doesnt work. See Canada and UK; their healthcare system is falling apart with months of wait time before being able to see a specialist.

Explanation to man with pea brained take. Free means paid for with taxes, not gratis.

Sure. But my point is pretty clear regardless of the number, right?

Uh... there already technically isn't anything stopping people. No one gets turned away for lacking money at a hospital

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Emergency care, sure; but routine care, no that gets turned down. Doctor offices require payment on service to be rendered upfront or right after (at least here in western PA).

You've either never worked a paid job or are so poor that even the US government says you need some help if you never pay anything for healthcare.

America: *Biggest, scummiest for-profit bullshit healthcare system in the world*

TC: "I dunno maybe healthcare isn't cost-prohibitive enough"

Controversial take:

*Posts something that already happens*

Yeah deal with that guys!!!

The real argument here is that any system in which the user must pay for medical care is one in which being alive is a luxury, not a right. I, for one, don't feel that that's how it should be.

Yeah, but I don't totally agree. What ends up happening a lot of the time if a poor person can't see a doctor is they eventually end up in the emergency room which costs more than several visits to a primary care physician. And if they can't pay, the hospital has to make that up somewhere so the rest of us end up paying for it indirectly in higher healthcare costs.

That is not at all what they said.

They even offer an optional higher fee for people who purely want to offset the cost of the office offering limited free slots to low-income patients

That makes me feel good and bad.

Like stories about the kid who gives up his allowance to pay for his friends school lunch debt.

It's sweet, but why on God's green earth have we allowed it to get to that point?