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A comment on NY Senate Bill S5474 proposing a universal single payer health plan for NYers. Parent comment

Re:NY Senate Bill S5474 proposing a universal single payer h... by lotsofpulp on Monday May 09, 2022 @06:14PM (#31320533)
Health care coverage with a deductible and copays is not at all similar to taxpayer funded healthcare such as that in the UK.
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Re:NY Senate Bill S5474 proposing a universal single payer h... by TMWNN on Monday May 09, 2022 @07:01PM (#31321015)
That has nothing to do with my point, which is that Massachusetts has 98% coverage.

Neither the UK's monolithic NHS that combines single-payer insurance and (more or less) 100% free on delivery with no membership card, nor Canada's single-payer insurance with no legal private alternative, is the norm internationally. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Netherlands all have Obamacare-like systems with dozens of competing private insurance plans with premiums. 30% copay is the norm in France's three separate government insurance plans. Australia has single-payer insurance but people are heavily incentivized to move to private plans. Etc., etc.

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