Other options include compulsory insurance like France, Japan, Australia, and Germany.

I don’t know what the rules are in those countries but the U.S. also has compulsory insurance or at least that is what ObamaCare was expected to be.

Since the ACA was passed the rate of un-insurance has dropped from 18% to under 10%. Universal coverage or 90% coverage that is what we are talking about or are we talking about who pays. The poor get free coverage under Medicaid, the working class gets a subsidy via a tax credit, the middle class and the rich have to pay for their coverage and pay for the cost of Medicaid and the tax credit for the working class. If we had universal coverage then the same payers would be picking up the price tag. I think universal coverage brings a huge disruption in how we get care that is scary for those who are already getting treatment they like or at least feel is adequate.

Remember only 10% of the population is not covered by health insurance and many of them it is a choice, they feel they are healthy so why buy insurance, an illness might bankrupt them but they don’t really have any money in the bank anyway, they are part of the third to half the population that lives paycheck to paycheck anyway and some of them make a pretty good paycheck.

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