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jon asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 3 weeks ago

Why does the US not have health care for the citizens?

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  • Pete
    Lv 5
    3 weeks ago
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    They have a private healthcare system. Insurance companies control their healthcare for profit system. It's a terrible healthcare system, that's why countries with a universal system don't adopt it. In the USA making money is more important than some ones health. Many people go bankrupt because they can't afford healthcare. In fact many Americans were travelling to Canada for insulin, because in Canada it costs $30 in the USA it costs $300.

  • 3 weeks ago

    Where did you get that idea?  Hundreds of millions of Americans receive health care every year.  We have medical schools and hospitals, clinics and hospices.  Where would you get the ludicrous idea that we don't have health care for our citizens?  Is it because of the growing number of criminal migrants clogging up the delivery system for LEGAL citizens?

  • Anonymous
    3 weeks ago

    Every man for himself.  People don't want to be political. Everybody works hard instead.

  • 3 weeks ago

    Because the US government  couldn't run a taco stand without effing it up. We really don't need them running our healthcare system.

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  • Kathy
    Lv 7
    3 weeks ago

    They expect employers to pay for health insurance of their employees.

  • 3 weeks ago

    The US has many hospitals and other types of health care available to them .

  • 3 weeks ago

    America is the only country to not have a major social democratic party.

    Canada's NDP got them Medicare for All.

    The British Labour Party created their NHS.

  • 3 weeks ago

    To many people would abuse it. I would say it may work if everyone paid $75:00 a month and $150.00 a month for a family. And those without a paid up policy pay cash.

  • Anonymous
    3 weeks ago

    I am a U.S. citizen and I have two different health insurances. I'm not sure what you are talking about.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    3 weeks ago

    Because nationalized / single-payer health care isn't the best health care.

    And because we have a health care system that isn't controlled by government, we have a lot more innovation with regards to drugs and to treatments.  The majority of the world's medical innovations are created in the US.  Nationalizing everything would change that for the worse.

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    Apparently, a lot of people can't handle the truth.

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