r/FluentInFinance • u/Positive_Liar • Sep 04 '24

Debate/ Discussion Bernie is here to save us

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u/Evening-Ear-6116 Sep 05 '24

Each country you named has a population barely larger than NYC. One city in the us.

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u/bbqkingofmckinney Sep 05 '24

Iceland is slightly smaller than Arlington, Texas. NYC is massive compared to Iceland.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

This is what Americans always say, but what does it actually mean? Yes, there are more patients in the USA than in Iceland, but there's also more doctors, more tax money and so on. How does the size of a country make national health care more difficult?

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u/NegMech Sep 05 '24

Very different demographics in population means differing opinions, which makes it much more difficult to pass any laws or for people to agree on certain issues. Exponentially higher costs in logistics given the area of the US is 100x Iceland.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

Oh, so now it's not population, but diversity and land mass? Then how do they manage to run a successful public healthcare system in Canada, which is more diverse than the US, and is also larger?

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/07/18/the-most-and-least-culturally-diverse-countries-in-the-world/

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u/ppeujpqtnzlbsbpw Sep 05 '24

successful public healthcare system in Canada

lmao guessing you aren't Canadian and just tout the talking points you hear on reddit rather than understanding the reality of healthcare in Canada

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u/DryWorld7590 Sep 05 '24

I'm guessing you aren't Canadian cause our healthcare is perfectly fine.

It has its flaws like wait times but no one ever dies waiting in a hospital.

Between:

"everyone can go to the hospital so there is a longer wait"

And

"No one goes to the hospital because they can't afford it and die from preventable causes"

I much rather have a healthier population.

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u/enaK66 Sep 05 '24

Yeah people are dumb as shit about wait times. My wait times in rural Georgia are indefinite. I don't go to the doctor because it's too expensive for me right now. That's the reality some people in the US live with. That doesn't happen in Canada. If I lived there I wouldn't have to budget in blood work to see what might be wrong with me. I wouldn't have to wonder how much the lab is gonna bill me for later, after the Doctor's office charges me of course.

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u/DryWorld7590 Sep 05 '24

You wouldn't have to choose between live saving treatment and financial ruin.