U.S. Health Care Versus Abroad

How Germany's Universal Health-Care System Works

Uploaded November 24, 2019


Canada's Universal Health-Care System

Uploaded July 05, 2019

To be truthful I think Americans will never ever see true healthcare reform. Not because people don't want it. Rather because everyone involved in the current system are getting wealthy off of it. That is... everyone except us who are held captive by them.

Surely no one truly believes politicians nor any other government official would dare cross paths with the powerful insurance and medical industry. Especially those "public servants" who hope to gain future employment with them once they leave public service for more money.

The system is so locked in place I don't see how we could change it. It starts with the medical colleges overcharging students. Education loan providers do quite well because of it. Doctors graduate most times owing $300,000 or more before even starting to practice in their mid to late twenties. Some 10 years after high school with little to no income. They also need to pay high cost malpractice insurance for themselves. So they need to earn the salaries they do.

Insurance companies are no backstop. They'll pay whatever hospitals and drug companies force them to. Malpractice lawyers with large settlements add to the insurance costs. All this causing those expenses to be passed down to their policy holders.

So if we are ever to reign in medical costs in the country which of those would go quietly if they were forced to take a financial hit? Here's a clue. None of them. Therefore, as I said, we will never ever see true healthcare reform.

The difference in those other countries was they never left it get of hand in the first place. Once this became so embedded as this it spelled the doom to Americans being able to have what other countries had for a long time.

Uploaded January 04, 2019