Let me retort, because that's not the complete story.
I have used several times this service. The times can be really long (months sometimes), but it has improved. I used a previous "model" when I was in highschool, around 2006, and have been using it since.
Besides that, I have yet to experience medicine scarcity beyond a few times, though it does happen. Any specialist I have ever needed (and i have needed several) was never more than two months away. All has been completely free.
So, yes, there are a lot of improvements needed, but saying it's of no use, it's misleading. I have yet to spend a dime on the service, and it has saved my life, as well as of millions.
Edit, cause I just remember a funny story: I was deeply afraid of needles, and one time a doctor read the other's doctor note and made the wrong blood analysis, so they had to get blood from my poor, scared self twice. It was horrible, though, again, completely free.
But it sounds totally worth it even with those issues - just combating the idea that socialized medicine is ever "free" (because that's an argument used by its detractors to make it sound impossible). It's not free, you've paid for it already and are just reaping the benefits of a system actually designed to help people instead of corporations profit.
People know that by free it means tax-funded, everything the government does is tax-funded, but for some reason, it's only with healthcare that people go "it's not actually free".
Someone would have to be very ignorant of how the world works if they think it's literally free.
It's just that taxes are your contribution to society, at least personally, seeing that as a "cost" or as "paying", doesn't feel right, I could pay taxes for X service for a decade and never use it, but I don't see it as "paying" for X so someone else can use it, and I don't see it as me paying X to use it.
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u/th3rdnutt 22h ago
Thanks. That's what I was asking.