Reply #31: The Universal Health Care for Americans is really not as

[rasputin1952]

complex as it is made out to be.

If you have insurance, and you need an operation that costs say, $30,000, others in the pool are paying for your health care. What the anti-UHC people fail to realize is that not only are others already paying for their health care, they also can easily be denied a lifesaving operation or procedure if the insurance company decides, for any # of reasons, that said procedure is not cost effective or out of the contract. Insurance "bureaucrats" make decisions every day that kill and maim people who thin they are covered but aren't.

The basic differences between UHC and private, is that the pool would be much larger, (the entire population), and care would/could not be refused. The only exception would be elective "ego" procedures like breast/penis implants, face-lifts etc, for which people could either get private insurance or pay out of pocket.

As for the comparisons to other nation's UHC, take the best from each one, incorporate and extrapolate them into better options and voila, a pretty darn good health care system where people are not dying because they cannot get the procedures, meds or preventative care that would save them.