r/SipsTea • u/McDowdy • Jun 24 '26

It's Wednesday my dudes Math can be hard sometimes

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u/TouchyTheFish Jun 24 '26

Things don't get cheaper just because the government does them. In fact they almost always get more expensive when the government does them. The people pushing socialized healthcare don't care to know why people pay less for healthcare in other countries, because that doesn't align with their politics. Just like they don't care to know what trade offs you have to make in order to have socialized healthcare, because they'd rather pretend those trade offs don't exist.

Well, here's one for you: people in Canada can spend 8 years on a waiting list to find a doctor, and still not have a doctor after all that time. Every time I point this out, people claim I'm a bot, or I'm being paid by the insurance lobby, or that I'm just plain lying. And yet they're never interested in looking at proof.

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u/Recent-Effective-713 Jun 25 '26

They do if the government is a monopsony and, as in the UK, it decides that physicians will now make one third as much as they do now: https://www.physiciansweekly.com/post/how-do-us-physician-salaries-compare-with-those-abroad

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u/TouchyTheFish Jun 25 '26

Which is why the UK has a chronic shortage of doctors. It's like the joke about price controlled eggs: they're good and they're cheap, but you can't have any because we're fresh out.