Do you know any sources I can look up and show people? I'm not sure where to look.

We can pickle that!

You seem to be pointing to problems with universal healthcare as though we are arguing about its merits.

I wasn't (although I do believe it is a far better system than my understanding of the the US' user-pays model). I was simply pointing out that universal healthcare is commonly supplemented by a user-pays model.

Only in the US, Canada and in Australia. Others are normal.

That, and outright bizarro hospital / private insurance markups. In your everyday life, you can go to any pharmacy and get basic cough lozenges at like $10 for a pack of 20 or more. But under hospital billing, those exact same lozenges can be $10 apiece.

Don't forget about the lack of dealing with insurance networks, so you're covered regardless of where you go instead of having to utilize specific providers to utilize the coverage.

We also did this with Corn, where corn used to mean any grain or pellet-like food (see: barleycorn, peppercorn, etc.)

Canada, US, and England all have privatized services working for them even though it's universal. What's the wait time on something that is completely socialist such as Cuba? Cuba has a much better healthcare system than the US and better doctors. They also have way more primary care doctors and help people prevent diseases rather than helping people cope with them. Seems it's smarter to prevent something before it occurs rather than to wait for something to happen to actually do something about it

It gets interesting at the level of nonessential care and procedures.

I too am a Canadian citizen. If I suffer a serious trauma like a gunshot wound or severely broken bone or severed appendage, I'm well taken care of on taxpayers' money. But it's not so nice for illnesses like Cancer or for less-than-urgent needs like eye care and dental care. There, I could be on a waiting list for an MRI or CAT scan for months or years, or left to pay mostly out-of-pocket for things like eyeglasses and dental surgery.

Case in point, in the Canadian system, if you don't have private insurance to cover dental care and you have gum disease, you're left to pay tens of thousands of dollars to keep your teeth from falling out of your head. If you need vision correction for poor eyesight, too bad, if you don't have private insurance for that, you're paying out of pocket for glasses/contacts/LASIK just like any American schlub. I say case in point because that's all me.

I recently had a pickled egg.. had always been too scared… I really liked it - but I love pickled things

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I mean, they are. You can pickle pretty much anything so a lot of times it helps to define what you're talking about exactly. I often see pickled cucumbers being referred to specifically as pickled cucumbers. The real question is why, at least in the western hemisphere, when someone says "pickle" the default assumed is a cucumber.

Your comment seems unduly heated.

ELI5 requests simple explanations but that doesn't mean the answers should be outright wrong like this comment you made:

>Everywhere else - the government is the ONLY provider of healthcare, and it covers EVERYONE.

>Obviously this is relative to the culture you’re part of.

Ask for a pickle in the UK and you will more than likely get a pickled onion.

They do have contracts with Va the empire , the blood goes to them that's how these blood banks , hospitals and testing centres becoming so rich

Basically universal healthcare means that it is paid for by the government rather than private insurance companies. Medicare is a form of universal healthcare for the elderly. Blue Cross, United Healthcare, and Humana are all forms of commercial / private insurance.

To be clear, the citizens fund the government, so the citizens pay the bill for universal healthcare. However, being government funded means that the “insurer” is not profit driven. They are not fighting to deny claims or to exclude high cost members, etc.

Government funded care is cheaper than commercial insurance because it is a single large entity rather than many small entities.

Universal healthcare is probably 90% a benefit and 10% a detriment. The argument against it is that money drives innovation and superior care. there is an ounce of truth to that and a pound of lies.

Universal care will likely never happen because there is an absurd amount of money in the health care industry so there are billions of dollars in lobbying / related spending / corruption to keep insurance private.

And Jalapeños.. source: am Mexican. Don't think I've gone more than a day without eating my meals with pickled Jalapeños.

Certainly they can't charge $5 at the pharmacy for something that costs $5 to manufacturer.

But we can agree that charging $500 is a little suspect.

I live in the US.

I never would have thought of herring. I eat pickled okra regularly because I grew up eating them and they're fantastic, but it's not popular where I live now.

Everyone eats pickled banana peppers and pickled jalapeños, so they're the real #2/3 after cucumbers, but for some reason we don't acknowledge them as pickled. That's just the standard way of having them here. If a restaurant actually has fresh jalapeños the menu will say "fresh jalapeños." After those I'd say maybe pickled eggs, but that's just from TV shows like The Simpsons and Cheers; I'm not sure I've ever eaten one.

You can pickle anything really

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We should definitely do as the authoritarian communist China does

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Why is ketchup not called tomato ketchup? Why is milk not called cow milk? I guess if something is by the far the most popular type in its category it becomes the default. It’s a lot easier to say “pickles,” “ketchup,” and “milk” rather than specify if everyone knows what you mean anyway. Obviously this is relative to the culture you’re part of.