People who cite places like Denmark to defend Bernie’s M4A proposal are conceding they don’t know much about his healthcare plan or much about the systems in the places they are comparing with.
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To compare:
Denmark has one of the highest tax rates in the world. Average Dane pays over 45%. That’s how they afford their system. Even a similar system would mean a huge tax hike for nearly every American.
Denmark’s system is very localized. It’s managed at a regional and local level, not federal. M4A would be exact opposite.
Denmark allows supplementary private insurance. Bernie’s M4A plan notably bans it.
Denmark allows supplementary private insurance. Bernie’s M4A plan notably bans it.
Denmark requires about 1 general practitioner per person and a certain number of hospital bed etc per person. For us to match, US would have to more than quadruple the current number of doctors while also cutting their pay significantly under M4A.
Denmark also has huge immigration restrictions and severe restrictions on access to healthcare for foreigners and illegal immigrants to limit costs. Bernie wants to do the opposite and open up government-funded healthcare for anyone who is here.
Extent of benefits offered by Medicare for all far exceeds what is offered among packages in Denmark.
Denmark also doesn’t have record of medical innovation we have, which would be largely stagnated by price controls pushed by Bernie.
Denmark also doesn’t have record of medical innovation we have, which would be largely stagnated by price controls pushed by Bernie.
I would oppose adopting a system similar to Denmark’s, but it still is not comprabale to Bernie’s disastrous M4A proposals. People should be honest about what they are promising and the consequences.
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And the whole problem is that a bunch of actual pundits spread talking points like this without anyone checking whether they make sense and then supporters cite them.
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