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Cool, let anyone who wants to opt out, and everyone who doesn’t is automatically signed up, just like how many nations automatically sign you up as a voter or for healthcare. Don’t want to have govt healthcare? Cool, you’re free to stay on private insurance that will skyrocket and collapse soon as the world adapts to a better system. We gotta stop letting malignant narcissists, sadists and the brainwashed ruin everything for everyone else.
I've lived in 4 European countries, and none had the option to "opt out" of health care coverage (other than being an illegal resident). It makes no sense to have that option anyway, it's like being able to opt out of paying taxes for education.
In pretty much all European countries you can still get private insurance if you want to. And some people do for various reasons. The difference is that if something happens with your private insurance, like you can't pay anymore or whatever you still have the public insurance to fall back on. Just because everyone gets public insurance doesn't mean private one is banned on something.
In fact, in a few European countries the system is more private and doesn't even have the equivalent of Medicare or Medicaid.
It's just regulated in a somewhat less moronic way than the US health care system.
It makes sense if opting out means you don't get national insurance.
When they show up in the ER with a heart attack they're going to get treatment we can't pay for and we'll be right back to square one with all of this shit
Also, nobody gave me the option to opt out of paying for the bombs out dumbass military drops on schools and other civilian infrastructure, don't know why this is any different
Fair enough.
Even then it doesn't make sense. The cost for people not having insurance, even if they don't want it, is borne by society, and is generally higher than if they did have insurance.
As the world adapts? What do you mean by this?