My introduction to America’s controversial health cover system came at university. Health insurance was compulsory for students. I had to pay the usual school and housing fees plus health insurance, a special fee for foreigners and taxes on top of all that. Everything was taxed. I think they even taxed my student visa. California’s tax system is second only in labyrinthe complexity to China’s. I spent more than US $14 000 on insurance in California, more than everywhere else combined. And I never really used it.
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You're lucky to live where they care about their people. $14,000 for insurance? That's nothing. I've probably paid 10x that and when you need to use it they use every excuse in the book not to pay out. You pay them so they can pay the hospital, but when you need it they don't pay. If you're real sick they drop you altogether.
We'll keep screwing over our own people so the insurance companies can make more money because what they want is what matters most. American healthcare isn't about healthcare. It's about corporatecare.
We pay lower taxes than Americans and everyone has better healthcare. If every government service is socialist and socialism is bad, What do American taxes pay for?
Military. They don't complain when their money goes to weapons of war.
China service is excellent but one must pay upfront for everything, barring an emergency. Money, money, money. We pay for seeing the doctor, for taking the tests, for medicines, for rooms and x-rays. You were lucky that you did not spend a large time in a China hospital.
Everybody pays for their health care in one way or another. Chinese hospitals demand payment in cash but you pay so much less than most countries.
So are you saying the US already has a communist health system?
Only if communist health cover means many people are excluded, the costs are very high and the service is horrible. In my experience comminist systems are the opposite.
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