Should the US adopt a single payer system?

Do you think that the US healthcare should adopt a single payer system?

  • Yes

    Votes: 14 77.8%

  • No

    Votes: 3 16.7%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 5.6%
  • Total voters
    18
Ryan Miller

Ryan Miller

Active member
For those that don't know, a single payer system is basically providing healthcare to every citizen by having the government pay for healthcare, through taxes of course. Currently, the United States' healthcare system is more of an insurance base. You pay for health insurance and you'll have access to doctors, healthcare, etc.

Healthcare in the United States​

Under Obamacare (keep in mind that Congress hasn't replaced Obamacare yet as of April 6, 2017), the government pays for health insurance for veterans. We also help those over the age of 65 with health insurance through medicare and those who are low in cash through medicaid. However, Obamacare is a really controversial bill because of the individual mandate. An individual mandate is basically the government forcing you to get health insurance or else you'll face a penalty. Overall, the healthcare here in the United States is all messy and some are calling for a single payer system to help fix this mess. What do you think? Do you think that the US should adopt a single payer system? Why or why not?

 
You already pay more per person than the UK on healthcare and we have universal healthcare, I just don't get how you can spend so much money and don't have universal healthcare.

 
It's very simple. Insurance companies are worried about their profit margins, not people's health, and as such they charge excessively. To add on to that, the fed doesn't subsidize medical schools, so University Hospitals charge excessively to keep themselves functioning.

 
Healthcare in the US is awful for many. I still have a giant feeling of restraint whenever I get ill because for my entire adult life until moving to Germany I was not financially able to go to the doctor for fear of having to pay a large deductible. I only got dental work done in the US because my grandfather died, and my grandmother has been using her life insurance money to take care of dental and doctor bills for her family.

Since coming to Germany, I finished the work that I needed done ($300~ possibly more). I pay 80 euros a month and I can go to the doctor without being scared. That should be normal in America.

 
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