Is universal healthcare bad for the economy?

 Allan:

First of all, what the hell is “universal health care?” 

Health care is an individual thing, not a universal thing. 

I can only assume that you actually mean universal health insurance like we have in Canada. In that case, your premise is entirely false. 

Universal health insurance takes greedy insurance companies out of the equation thus preventing most of the money paid for health insurance from being siphoned off the top in the form of profits. 

Second of all, using Canada’s example, its far less expensive that the for-profit model in the United States. Doctors, hospitals and clinics in Canada don’t have to employ large billing departments, they don’t have to worry about unpaid bills and don’t have to worry about collections. 

Also, the United States, despite not having universal health insurance spends twice as much on healthcare per person as Canada does.