Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy

Re:Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy by jmeister on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:00PM (#24356581)

From a third-world immigrant traumatized by dysfunctional govt. institutions back home, and seeing some spectacular cockups by state-run institutions here, what is the guarantee that UHC won’t be worse?

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Re:Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy by triceratops on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:53PM (#24357266)

I assume you believe there are some things the American government does better than your home country, otherwise you wouldn't be here. Why are you so worried it'll turn out poorly?

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Re:Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy by zerkten on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:11PM (#24356721)

There are plenty of ways to phase a transition to mitigate concerns. It makes senses to take an approach like that. It doesn't make sense to continue the status quo.

For any other change, there would generally be a preference from people to phase the changes, why not healthcare too?

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Re:Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy by happytoexplain on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:07PM (#24356671)

There is no guarantee - but the more immediate problem is that talking heads spectacularly amplify such doubt for shallow political reasons. Similar to how "free college" gets turned into "communist mass starvation".

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Re:Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy by afarrell on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:42PM (#24357140)

A significant percentage of the US is descended from those who abandoned the life they knew to move across an ocean because they were so afraid of a neighborhood or government conspiracy to murder them.

For example: My wife's father's family.

The relatives that didn't flee Europe were murdered in the early 1940s by a German government conspiracy.

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