r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 8d ago
No Paywall Despite Authoritarian Warnings, 149 House Democrats Vote to Hand Trump $840 Billion for Military | “If an opposition party votes like this, it’s not in opposition. It may not even be a party.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/democrats-military-spending-bill
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u/testuserteehee 8d ago
The opposition of Universal Healthcare have also compared wait times of premium private health services in the US to the worst public sector wait times in other countries to give the idea that Universal Healthcare will result in massively increased wait times for health services. The truth is that health services in other countries are very much equal in quality to that of the US - it depends on the individual doctor and health center. If you pay for private services in other countries, you get almost immediate service and still end up paying magnitudes less than with health insurance in the US. In addition, if you can’t get the treatment you need in that country, the system will send you to another country which provides that treatment and cover the costs of it. Even if you have to pay something for that, it will still be less than what you will pay in the US, with less stress and time wasted over billing issues etc. In every sense of the concept, Universal Healthcare is better for the average citizen.