I live in Canada.. The biggest misconception is that Canada has long wait times for life threatening events. This is not true at all. For most elective surgeries such as arthroscopy on your knee or even a full knee replacement etc., you will wait. If you are diagnosed with cancer and need surgery tomorrow, you will get it. If we are under age 65 we still pay for prescription drugs but rules differ by province.
Health care costs per capita in the US are more than 50% higher than anywhere else in the world (according to WHO). From my perspective, I blame insurance companies and the litigation lawyers that defend them for the high costs. An American citizen who needs a knee replacement, for example, can fly to Panama stay in a state of the art hospital run by USA trained doctors and pay less than half for their surgery.
The real problem the US has to grapple with is not how to give universal health care but how to deal with the blow to the economy from the removal of 300+ million health insurance policies and a bunch of unemployed lawyers.
Sometime, somewhere, somehow, someone will have to rip the band aid off.
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