WHAT DOES IT COST TO GET TREATMENT UNDER SOCIALIZED MEDICINE

What does it cost to get medical treatment in socialized medicine ? I keep seeing this question being answered incorrectly by people of good and bad will on both sides of the political aisle . The answers I keep hearing are either rosy tinted naïve statements or equally naïve arguments that the mere existence of socialized medicine bankrupts a country. Failure to understand the answer is preventing a serious practical debate on the topic. The key to socialized medicine is that , at the time of getting treatment , you pay little or nothing . The essence of socialized medicine is that you pay through a tax contribution every day that you have a job and are earning a pay check . In most countries it is a progressive tax so the more you earn the more you pay . The result is that , no matter how poor you are, if you get sick you get treated and you do not go bankrupt. If you are lucky enough to never get sick, then your contribution is used to fund the health care of people who are unluckier than you are . This is how insurance works in general by the way. IF YOU ARE FROM MIDDLE AMERICA WHICH IS ANYONE RELYING ON SALARY OR WAGE TO MANAGE LIFE’S VICISSITUDES THEN YOU OUGHT TO BE OUT THERE CAMPAIGNING FOR PEOPLE WHO ADVOCATE THIS IDEA . Don’t be fooled Socialized Medicine does not solve the triage challenges of modern life . Healthcare for all is expensive and full of practical and ethical challenges that exist in non-socialized medicine . It takes energy and policy wonks and compromise to manage . If we applied American exceptionalism to the solution, we could probably do it better than anyone else . Let’s give it a try