I mean, this is inaccurate, at least for Germany. Although health insurance is technically mandatory in Germany, there are over 50k citizens that are uninsured, not 0

I live in the U.S. and I have "health insurance" from my employer (over 200k employees worldwide and billions in profit). My contribution to my health insurance premiums is around $4500 per year (I think). The last four years I have hit my deductible for at least one family member and out of pocket maximum. I am fortunate that I have been able to afford the roughly $20k per year that I have been spending on health care, but it has wrecked my ability to save or do anything else.

So I guess my point is that I believe that 27M uninsured dramatically understates the scale of the US healthcare crisis. I feel like the political elite are so far out of touch that they hear a story like mine and think "$20k? That's like a nice bottle of wine, what's the problem?" It's been devastating to my finances and by virtually any definition, I am in the working rich. Most people absolutely could not afford $20k per year. I am hoping next year will be better, but devastating medical bills are inevitable for most of us, and our socialized medicine is administered through the bankruptcy courts.

For profit insurance is pure exploitation.

I am amazed it's only 27 million. If they could, they would charge all 340 million Americans and all immigrants yet to nationalize, and give no service at all. Which is their obvious aim. Charge for being alive.

Republicans for the most part don't care what anyone else thinks of them. They are full of the certain knowledge that they are the center of the universe and nothing outside that rotting circle matters.

being honest a lot of those countries lack universal healthcare. And by universal I mean everyone, including migrants without papers.

Japan is not technically correct. One is required to have healthcare coverage, but some people skirt the law and don't. We also pay at point of service, pay for prescriptions, etc. This is on top of paying for insurance (though your company may offer insurance that it pays some/all of). There are tax procedures once medical out-of-pocket reaches 100k JPY in a year and a way to reduce/eliminate further cost.

I know this is a tough pill for americans to swallow. But lots of countries does not allow trans-athletes to compete in the women's class.

The international organisation for track and field, and also the IOK have already said that transathletes are not allowed to compete with women (for now).

Though I absolutely agree that US politicians are experts at exaggerating and trying to blow the smallest issue out of proportion for headlines.

And it's sad the American people are too uneducated to see through the charade.

I would laugh at the US, if it wasnt for the fact that people's lives are ruined forever on a daily basis.

Not laughing. Crying

These aren't any republicans, these are the rich ones with not enough imagination to think of anything but other people's sexual preferences.

I can't imagine laughing at this gross genocidal empire.

More like puking.

Go into debt?! How so?

We only spend $700+/mo ($8,400 annual) for our family of 4, with $4500 deductibles per person and a family max out of pocket of $15,000... Is that not affordable for everyone?

/s in case it wasn't abundantly clear...

27 million with no coverage, the rest with extremely poor coverage.

And how many millions more Americans effectively have no access due to poverty and high copays?

As a Canadian, I do want to point out that it's not enough to be above the united states, considering how their bar is dropping lower and lower.

I am very thankful for our existing healthcare system, and I want to see people protect it against the american inspired groups that are trying to privatize parts of it.

There are also areas where we were originally SUPPOSED to have coverage based on the original plan decades ago (ex. pharmaceuticals, homecare, dental), but those phases never got implemented.

We subsidize Israel’s government through military. The money they save helps pay for them to have socialized healthcare.

That needs to be the message.

I see more of the world watching in horror than I see laughing.

This is not completely true the countries that have zeros have tons of people who are not covered. Take a look at the map on this website.

Even with single-payer healthcare, which is commonly considered optimal for understandable reasons, hospitals, clinics and other services may be privatised and or are subject to severe budget cuts.