If you can afford housing and child care in the US you don’t care about healthcare because you are probably on a good employee plan.
If you can afford housing and child care in the US you don’t care about healthcare because you are probably on a good employee plan.
Jee sounds like a swell arrangement for 20% of the population ...
More like 80%. Americans are simply richer than Europeans.
80% of Americans are definitely not on what I'd consider a "good healthcare plan".
What is considered a "good healthcare plan"? Can you compare American insurance plans with Europe's ones?
92% of American had health insurance in 2023. Some people may have more than one insurance plans, thus the total number below is greater than 100%.
Of the subtypes of health insurance coverage, employment-based insurance was the most common, covering 53.7 percent of the population for some or all of the calendar year, followed by Medicaid (18.9 percent), Medicare (18.9 percent), direct-purchase coverage (10.2 percent), TRICARE (2.6 percent), and VA and CHAMPVA coverage (1.0 percent).
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2024/demo/p60-28...
Dental coverage, for starters. It's surprising how many plans are extremely skimpy on this.
Does anyone actually have good dental insurance? I think mine just does a small copay when i clean but even before I had dental out of pocket for that is only like $70 every 6 months if you bother listening to dentist (most don’t after mom stops taking them up to having a bad tooth issue later in life). Any actual work done on my teeth even with insurance has been out of pocket because in the eyes of the insurance company, having functional teeth is a cosmetic matter. Extraction? Hope you have $2500 to pay an american dentist for that. Or you can get the exact same procedure done from someone with the same training and experience for about $700 if you drive or fly to Tijuana for it.
US Big Tech healthcare plans do. I don't recall last time I had to pay anything out of pocket for dental cleaning, for example, and it's covered 4 times / year. I had root canal and wisdom teeth extraction too, and while those had some copay, it was nowhere near the numbers you quote.
Other countries don't do that either. IIRC the main reason for this is that dentistry was invented very recently and dentists are frequently just scammers who love unnecessary procedures.