r/FluentInFinance • u/The-Lucky-Investor • 13d ago

“Medicare for All” would save the U.S $5.1 Trillion over 10 years Discussion/ Debate

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/30/easy-pay-something-costs-less-new-study-shows-medicare-all-would-save-us-51-trillion
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u/Secret_Squire1 13d ago

American having lived in Europe and the UK.

No it’s more like having to wait several weeks to be seen by a GP to be told to go home and take Tylenol while resting. I had my foot run over by a car and was told the same thing.

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u/Lockhead216 13d ago

Stop this fake narrative that there isn’t wait times in the US.

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u/Secret_Squire1 13d ago

I’m stating that living in Europe I have experience this. I have used the US medical system extensively with various large knee surgeries. I waited about a month to get a specialist knee surgeon.

The Americans I meet in the UK tell me it can be close to a year for such specialist.

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u/slimaq007 13d ago

UK is pretty bad case, because they are struggling with staff for decades.

For free of charge surgery of my shoulder in Poland I would have waited 3-12 months depending on hospital.

For paid one I waited like 3 days, just for decision how to do that and paid at least 6x less than in US. It was less then 2000$ including hospitalization. It is not considered cheap here, but I wonder how expensive would it be to be done privately in USA

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u/Og_Left_Hand 13d ago

the UK has been consistently cutting and privatizing healthcare for like over a decade.

like it’s not a socialized healthcare problem it’s an underfunded healthcare problem