No you dont seem to understand that for example I wouldn’t buy a MRT just for private patients. If I would then private patients would have to pay a lot more and their insurances would be more expensive. I buy an MRT because of the public insured patients who finance this machine through a much bigger number of treatments so it becomes cheaper for the individual patient. What good does me the higher compensation from private patients if I dont have the machine if I just rely on them? They just use exisiting stuff but rarely are the reason why it exists.
Trust me on this zara, when private pay justifies medical capacity it’s a bad deal. We’re living through that exact thing in the US right now. The US healthcare system is a dystopian nightmare. You don’t want to take any steps towards it at all. It won’t be cheaper, if it seems cheaper it’s because it’s the loss leader to get you in the store where they plan to ravage you.
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If you’re defining any contribution that you make to a public system that is above and beyond the use that you, specifically, make of that system as “going to the poors” then of course you’re going to think a lot of your money goes to poor people. Shit, some of my state tax dollars go to train lines and highways that I’ll literally never use, but a whole bunch of poor people will. The outrage!
That’s just a really fucking stupid way of looking at taxes. And, again, everything you’re saying is the EXACT same lines that republicans in the US use when talking about healthcare, social security, and taxes in general.
There is a bunch of research that wealthy people work more hours, than average.
Its like running circles with you. You always come back to profits. Above you said you cost the healthcare system about 100€ a year. So why on earth would I open a practise for cases like you who come maybe once a year if at all?
A lot of the private insured people are self-employed, teachers or clerks. Self employed people will think twice about every expenditure during difficult economic times and rather keep their money together. Also a lot of people(public and private) cancelled their appointments due to corona fears. That meant reduced working hours or worse for a lot of people. So the public healthcare providers payed us about 40% of our 4th quarter revenue(we had with them) in 2019 to help us cope and keep the practices afloat. Practices who served only private patients didnt get any compensation(neither public nor private healthcare providers). Why should the public sector now rescue this practices who only serve the people that left the community of solidarity? These practices now had to survive on savings. That shows you how much the private healthcare industry actually cares for the healthcare infrastructure. Even worse since the government had lots of programs to help business owners now the public helped with taxpayer money to keep even these business somehow alive.
Lol. Poor people working multiple low wage jobs to make ends meet work much longer and harder than every wealthy person I know. Without exception.
Wealth in the US is generational, and the majority of it is inherited. The person making mid six figures probably works fairly hard for their money. The person that owns a yacht and donates to GOP PACs doesn’t do shit.
This myth that “working hard will set you free” from poverty is a right wing talking point and needs to fuck off.
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Despite popular opinion, parking a large amount of money in an index fund and living off the returns in perpetuity is not, in fact, hard work.
A very right wing one.
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I probably don’t know anyone REALLY rich. But I know enough people who have enough money to not work for living. They all have in common that they work their butts off and are on the frugal side.
and they were lucky/fortunate?
You have literally no idea how bad wealth and income inequality are in the US. We also don’t have a generous social safety net like Western Europe.
It’s a good thing social science isn’t based on anecdotal experience.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2006/06/29/link-between-income-and-happiness-mainly-illusion
zara,
What % of working people do you think enjoy their jobs? Or find them “cool and interesting”?
There is a massive disconnect between actual hard work and income in this country. But I’m glad we have Canadian academics here with no experience living in the US to tell us how to vote and how to feel about income inequality.
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What is the maximum % of people in a county who could have an interesting/enjoyable job if they “worked on it”? Surely you don’t think it’s 100%?
Incredible stuff itt
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Because someone needs to flip the burgers. Or they’ll burn. My estimation is that 10% of the jobs in a western country could be described and fulfilling/enjoyable. I’m open to arguments, but that is the gulf that we are talking at each other over.
Of course there is a huge income inequality problem in the states but that is not the claim you made. You said wealthy people work less. You are wrong, on average.
It’s amusing you are such a hard core progressive but can’t pass up an opportunity to be xenophobic by citing my nationality as if it somehow invalidates research I cite or means I can’t have an opinion.
Again I think you are universalising your own attitudes to the populace at large when your are really quite a unique person (in a good way). It’s not realistic to judge people by your standards. Not everyone is as capable of independence as you.
No! Everyone in America can make 6 figures after they put themselves through college (which is basically free if you’re poor!). Then they can vote and advocate for milquetoast right of center “progressives” to push us ever so slightly left on various social issues while maintaining the status quo that made them a productive and rich member of society!
Flipping burgers is a job only for teenagers after school! No one should work that job to pay their rent! Stop being lazy and invest in an index fund, poor!
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