Brits don’t need health insurance: as we have the good ole NHS, but we do pay a percentage of our wage for the priviledge of it’s existence: as well as paying income tax too
I’m hardly ever ill: so don’t get my money’s worth - if employed: we also have to pay for dental/eye care expenses - good thing I’ve got strong teeth (my friends dental bills are ridiculous).
I don’t understand the idea of having to “buy” better chances of having good health in a society that claims first and foremost that all people have equal opportunity.
If the opportunity for better health means, realistically and practically, that a man must perform more labor than another to get the privilege of insurance, then the value of health is dependent on the value of labor?
If this man works X amount of hours to pay for a medical procedure that costs another man the same amount, but not in the equivalent of “labor”, to receive, then there are certain people who are not worth the effort to service them, medically, as the costs would exceed the amount of money that could be made by such a wage worker.
Our system is saying that the cost of good health is the same for the worker and the owner, but the costs for making the money for the costs are different; one man works several hours to pay a bill, the other man pays the bill with money made from the labor of another.
A funny parody would be a skit where a worker happens to be going to the same doctor as his boss. The boss paid his bill with the profit he made from the worker who was paying his bill with the money he made from his boss…as an hourly wage. The cost is the same for each, but in reality, the worker is working one and a half times more (roughly) but receiving a portion of the profit he produces as his wage. The worker pays the bills with his labor…the boss gets his bill paid by giving a portion of the profit to the worker so he may use it to pay his boss’s bill.
There is something fundamentally wrong with this, folks. What is to be said about a country where mere health is a commodity and has to be “bought”?
What else is funny is how a consumer can be allowed to buy a product that is very expensive but rely on charity and/or the welfare system to provide and/or pay for the medical treatment.
Since charity and the welfare system exist, lower class people have an alternative to working a minimum wage job, and, the can usually get more through these systems than they could otherwise buy with the money they made with the minimum wage job.
The point is that there is enough money, or could be enough, to pay for most minor medical and heath issues, if it were saved. But because consumers have complete spending freedom, they use their money for trivial things which do not matter as much as health.