Satire

Free health care? That’s a terrible idea. Wasting taxpayer’s precious money. Instead of slightly increasing taxes, everyone else should just pay for their own medical bills! That way, you know you can always get care right away instead of waiting for days in the waiting room! Sign up with an insurance company, pay them plenty of money every month, and you’ll have all your medical bills paid off without a doubt! Unless your company finds the slightest reason to refuse to pay, of course. Wouldn’t you rather be guaranteed to not be paying for an old fat man’s diabetes treatment than help a kid dying with cancer?

Break your arm? Only thousands of dollars to fix! Snake bite? Better have 35 grand saved up! A 40 minute stitching procedure? Hand over tens of thousands of dollars! Diabetes? Though it was sold for a dollar at first, it’s only a couple hundred now because the company significantly raised the price for no reason other than making even more money. They know Americans will be forced to buy it even if the price is completely unreasonable! Too bad Americans die every day from not being able to afford insulin or any other prescribed medication; maybe they should’ve saved their money! Kids who can’t afford it but are too young for a job should have been born rich! Find out you have cancer? Well you better have hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank or else you’re going bankrupt and won’t receive treatment! Don’t worry, all you have to do is sell your house and all your belongings just so you can stay alive! And that’s not even guaranteed!

It’s okay though, because this system isn’t meant to benefit patients. That’s not the point of healthcare. It’s meant for the companies to make money!

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