@iska@mstdn.starnix.network Time goes back a lot further than three months, I am not talking about the difference between three months ago and Monday next week, and I suspect that you know this.

I am aware of the price of medicine outside of the US. I've paid for healthcare in Korea before, the prices are very low and very affordable compared to those in the US. This is also neither here nor there, healthcare is not only medication.

And so, why are you pretending that healthcare consists only of doctors appointments and pharmacy items? What about psychiatric care? What about cancer treatment? What about surgery? What about rehabilitation?

If access to healthcare is contingent on money, people without the money will suffer and will die. Pretending that this is quantitatively a better system in spite of these obvious facts simply because you ideologically prefer it is farcical.

I do not like people being absolutists about universal healthcare, there are always going to be inherent problems, in many cases an effective hybrid system could be better, but being absolutist about free market healthcare is quite possibly worse.