Ambulances costing anything anyway is such a marker of a failed society like wtf
I was asked if I wanted to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance after I got T-boned by an F150 and they followed it up with “the ride will cost $2000 if you don’t have insurance” even though we were within walking distance of the hospital (like 500 yards).
I walked instead.
Failed country
Fun fact - I looked at travel insurance recently because of a trip I’m planning and it cost 15€/week… with the specification “/without USA and Canada”. If you want to go to the US, this temporary insurance costs 25€/week
I exaggerated a bit, the hospital was actually closer to a quarter mile and I didn’t actually go because I didn’t have insurance so I sure as hell wasn’t stepping foot in an emergency room lol
Good news is that I have insurance now, so next time I’m in an accident, the ambulance ride is only $1000 and I only have to pay $8000 out of pocket at the hospital (with a $50,000/year max that they’ll cover before it’s on me again).
Good thing I’m spending $200/month on that coverage, whatever would I do without the $50 off at urgent care? (Where the base cost of a visit is $200). Kinda wild how you have to take the employer option is it’s available or you get fined and if you aren’t insured you get fined, and if you have insurance you still have to pay fines.
I think it would be cool if they could bundle all of these subscriptions into a single payment that will fund all essential services. Not sure if anyone’s tried that before.
I have Ambulance+ so that the paramedic doesn’t read ads to me the entire way. You get more bang for your buck if they’re treating your injury instead.
Literally me when I have to watch a mid-CPR ad about Joe Rogan’s podcast
People will do this shit instead of paying higher taxes
Universal healthcare is actually popular in the US. Pretty sure most polls show a majority want it. And one thing you have to do when determining how popular universal healthcare is you have to subtract out responses from the over 65 crowd. You do that because they are the demo most opposed to universal healthcare but they are also demo where most everyone is already on universal healthcare (Medicare). Subtract out their wildly hypocritical opinions and universal healthcare is wildly popular.
It’s just that liberal democracy never actually delivers what people want.
People actively advocate for this instead of paying higher taxes
The issue is that higher taxes won’t solve it, lower taxes and a single payer or state owned healthcare system would.
As it stands higher taxes will just drive up rates and line the pockets of insurance executives.
The increased taxes pay for universal healthcare, which would take the place of the current costs. If you remove the cost of current healthcare plans, and pay less than that cost per year in taxes, it would pay for universal healthcare AND be less expensive. But it won’t happen because taxes bad.
We already pay enough taxes into medical services to fund a UHC. Which is why you’d actually pay less in taxes (true single payer will reduce cost across the board) and also not have to pay for private healthcare.
The current system isn’t some compromise, it’s theft.
