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[Final Update] My insurance won't cover UTIs for males. Yes, I'm in the US.
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this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023
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I'm living in Turkey. All health care is free.
but if you live in turkey you get hate for being gay
You get that in the US too, so what's the difference?
true that
Unless you are unemployed. Then you have to pay the unemployed tax (GSS) whether you use the healthcare services or not.
That sounds so fucking stupid
You're unemployed so pay us money you can't recoup until we make you homeless
That sounds expensive. So when you don't have an income source they charge you a tax for it?
It makes sense if you think about it (assuming my thoughts are correct, I'm in the US). If you're employed, you are contributing through your taxes. Just because you're unemployed, it doesn't mean your contributions pause. Now, should they? That's a good question, but the current implementation makes sense. I imagine it does incentivize people to look for employment.
there is so much money in the world, and food/water, and housing that literally everyone - theoretically - could be fed and healthy without needing to pick on the unemployed first.
It's not a matter of amount, it's a matter of allocation. You have water shortages in a lot of places because agriculture uses massive amounts of potable water to irrigate (and can afford to do so- because water is and should be cheap). If agriculture were more efficient, we would have a lot more potable water- but making it more efficient takes money, resources, work, and ongoing maintenance. Similarly, the existence of vacant housing and homeless people doesn't imply that we have enough housing to go around. A lot of vacant housing is vacant for a reason- it's not ok to be shoving homeless people into collapsing apartments, unsafe buildings, a sixth-floor walkup when they're in a wheelchair, etc. Food also is way more than the production cost, it's also transporting the food to a place where it can be made available, keeping the food fresh and safe, and preparing it. For a lot of countries with an unstable food supply, the problem is much less that they don't have enough food and more that it's difficult or unsafe to get food to the tables of people who are hungry.
This might have been implied in your comment but it's far more nuanced than "we just need to care more about feeding everybody"- there are real tradeoffs and real commitment of real work and resources, and important sacrifices both known and unknown to any system you design.
No. No, it does not. A poor tax makes no sense.
We can discuss where the money comes from, but the idea isn't pie-in-the-sky wild. I don't disagree with you.
In germany, the state is paying for your health insurance when you're unemployed(along with other social insurances). More precisely the job centers are paying it, but they are ultimately paid by the state so...