In the discussion thread: America is a centrist, capitalist country. We are not and will never be socialist. [View all]
Response to Baobab (Reply #33)
Fri May 20, 2016, 08:50 AM
Recursion (56,343 posts)
37. Well, Medicare certainly has a deductible. A pretty high one.
Doctors in Europe maybe have one part time accountant. Here they might have three or four full time accounting staff.
The bigger issue is that doctors in Europe make half of what they make in the US, and we don't have the political will to tell US doctors to take a paycut. At any rate, Medicare certainly has a deductible (a grand or so), so if the battle cry is "Medicare For All" it's hard to fault people for assuming everybody would have a deductible. |
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