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Granted. You now lose 35% of your income before you even receive it even paycheck, foreigners often get attended to despite not having submitted any of their paychecks, there's always a significant waiting list for anything serious upto multiple years for something like a hip replacement and you'll commonly find yourself wishing you had a it more income like your wealthier friends so you could afford to pay for private care and get a significantly better experience.
He asked for a new system, he didn't ask for a description of what we already have.
He asked for free healthcare in his country. I described what it looks like everywhere else as well as what the uneducated think "free" is. Seems I hit some nerves.
You didn't hit nerves, we're just laughing at you because you fundamentally misunderstand healthcare outside the United states.
Don't mistake mockery for anger. I, personally, feel sorry for you.
As someone not from the US and from one of those systems, that's exactly how it works but enjoy your copium. Or, you know, tell me what's so "fundamentally" misunderstood? After all, laughing and pointing achieves nothing if you're trying to prove someone wrong.
At least here, you don't usually pay for private healthcare yourself, your insurance does. And because private healthcare can and does limit their services and usually avoids the most costly patient groups, insurance is cheap compared to the US (abt 500€/year for 42F), if you want it. US is in a league of its own in how much people end up paying for healthcare, and they have god-awful population level results to show for it.
Sure the wait times can be long, usually not years though. But what horrifies me is that there are rich countries where the wait time can be infinite for some people.