Your peer group consisted of working people who could generally wake up in the morning. Generally healthy people.
Your insured pool now includes people who don't take care of themselves and treat the emergency room like a private doctor's office.
Other countries with government-controlled healthcare introduced wait times to encourage people to consider whether eating that extra donut was worth the health risk. I suspect we'll follow that path, too.
"According to a recent study by the Consumer Choice Center, the average wait for a GP appointment in the United States in 2023 was around three weeks, two to ten times longer than in Europe. For example, in that year, the average waiting time for a medical consultation was two days in Switzerland, six days in France and ten days in the United Kingdom and Italy."
Your insured pool now includes people who don't take care of themselves and treat the emergency room like a private doctor's office.
Other countries with government-controlled healthcare introduced wait times to encourage people to consider whether eating that extra donut was worth the health risk. I suspect we'll follow that path, too.