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Originally Posted by The Heron
People don't realize that insurance is a business, not a charity. Most of the conditions and rules are in place to ensure the continuity of the business, if you want true universal healthcare you'll have to take huge tax increases as the government controls and pays for healthcare, and nobody really wants that.
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A business is about profits.
What health care costs depends on level of care provided, not the system of collecting the money to pay for it. A private run health care system has the added burden of producing profits for the companies. A Government run National Health has the burden of providing care for those unable to pay, or like me retired.
Mismanagement or over inflated administrations are subject to both systems.
Neither system is perfect.
But if forced to choose between a system that will care for me come what may and a system that will try to dump me to guard profits. It's not a hard choice. AND that's the real difference between the 2 systems.