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Comments like this make it clear you have no idea how bad it is in the poorest states, and delusional if you think a system designed to extract the maximum value from each consumer means health care is going to cost you less. I can only assume from you're statement that you aren't making 6 figures or more, so you likely will see worse healthcare under a private rather than better. Poverty is twice as high in America, and three times as high in Mississippi, the poorest state.
Housing is also a serious issue, and is affecting far too many people, but the indications are it is just as bad in America.
I don't think adopting their policies are going to improve our state.
I do. I lived down south frequently. Even the Globe and Mail was decrying Ontario bring poorer than Mississippi and Alabama recently. Only person here doesn't know what goes on is you. I'm not patriotic and am tired of people who are to the point of wilful blindness. You assume a lot trying to blather a response. Our healthcare is shit and costs people who make under a hundred a year more in tax than insurance would, despite all the horror stories our media loves to push, that are nothing but (very effective) propaganda.
Having lived in several different countries with both public and private healthcare, I can say with confidence that privatization is the death of a healthcare system.
Health for profit makes everyone's care worse except for the really rich, who still end up paying more under that system than they otherwise would have.
Even something like government reimbursemrnt for privatized healthcare means public health care suffers, as public institutions now have to compete with higher salaries paid by private hospitals, slowly eroding the system from the inside out.
There's no such thing as cheap healthcare, but public systems are a hell of a lot better at keeping it affordable and accessible.
@ZC3rr0r @John_McMurray
There seems to be a lot of different 'definitions' for private healthcare and public healthcare.
The 'definition' seems to flip flop front nation to nation.π€