The following is very big picture:
Canada, UK and Sweden - health care is largely paid by taxes (that are quite high), health care is delivered largely by government-run hospitals and clinics.
France - health care is largely paid by taxes (that are quite high), health care is delivered largely by private hospitals, clinics and free-standing doctors.
Germany - health care is paid by a combination of taxes and insurance. The poor get a bargain, since health care is free to them. Those employed by large companies, by small companies and those in the “individual market,” either directly or through associations, pay a reasonable amount for their insurance.
US - health care is paid by a combination of taxes and insurance. The poor get a bargain, since health care is free to them. Those employed by large companies pay a reasonable amount for their insurance. But, there are many people who are caught in the middle. Insurance in the “individual market” is unaffordable.
Japan - health care is largely paid out of pocket. People carry insurance only for very, very big medical expenses.
Among the provisions in the Republican plan is allowing people to buy insurance through associations. I don’t know why this is even controversial. Either the Democrats are dumb as rocks or else seek they so hate people in the middle that they don’t care what happens to them.
>I don’t know why this is even controversial. Either the Democrats are dumb as rocks or else seek they so hate people in the middle that they don’t care what happens to them.
They’d prefer that the middle class dies since we seldom vote for them.
And they take the absolute p***, as the Brits say, by engaging in high-risk behavior to a wildly disproportionate degree - drugs, alcohol, pregnancy, sexual assaults, and, of course, knife and gun wounds.