Will america have “universal healthcare” one day kind of like europe does?

In America a stable job (not difficult to get) and even a low paying job can pay for the costs of healthcare. If you can’t be bothered getting a job and contributing to society then why should a doctor be bothered saving your life? Plus universal healthcare means the government controls the health service and I don’t want someone like Trump controlling whether I live or die.

You've left out all the people who can't AFFORD to "pay what (they) think they would need" and therefore have a choice about medical treatment under the usa system or who end up in debt to the extent of banruptcy.

How would a public health system prevent the formulation of new drugs? It could well have the opposite effect: more people being able to afford to go to the doctor and be prescribed more drugs.

Surely the proceeds of taxation is intended to benefit the community as a whole? What about people who don't drive but whose taxes pay for roads; childless people whose taxes help to fund childcare and education; pacifists whose taxes fund wars and weapons? If the usa is running out of taxation money there are plenty of steps which could be taken to remedy this: just one suggestion would be to remove tax exempt status from all religious entites, that would add billions to the federal revenue.

As to the usa not following the example of other countries, why is that necessarily a bad thing? It's the example which is important not false pride in the notion that the usa always has the perfect answer to everything for the rest of the world to follow.

Do you have any experience of healthcare in various European countries, or do you base that comment on Fox "News" propaganda?

I have a few decades experience with the British NHS, some experience of the Italian health system, and our daughter was born in The Netherlands. No system is perfect and, unless you're wealthy, there's nowhere in the world where you'll be seen and treated at a moment's notice for every minor complaint.

The NHS makes mistakes because it's a massive system composed of thousands of fallible people working under great pressure due to a British Conservative government that would love to turn Britain into the Fifty-First State where the rich get whatever the fuck they want, and everyone else can just go and fuck themselves.

You'll always have whingers who complain about how they aren't immediately rushed into surgery if they call for an ambulance because they have an ingrown toenail. But the vast majority of reasonable people who have real experience of the NHS have a very positive view of it.

In serious cases, the NHS can move with surprising speed and efficiency. In 1993, my late wife was experiencing visual problems, so she went to seen an optometrist to get new glasses. He examined her eyes, saw something he didn't like the look of, and called the local hospital's ophthalmology department. She was seen by an ophthalmologist that afternoon, and booked in for a scan the next day. After the scan, a neurosurgeon broke the news to her that she had a brain tumour, and she was scheduled for surgery the following week. The operation took about eight hours, and she was in hospital for about a week afterwards, then she had a course of radiotherapy that lasted about a month.

And, of course, since it's the NHS, none of this cost us a penny, whereas if we'd been in the States, we probably would have ended up one of many thousands of people who are medically-induced bankrupts.

During the whole process, she was treated with care and compassion by people who knew their shit, and she had more than a decade of completely normal life before the tumour recurred. She then had another long session on the operating table, but unfortunately the treatments then available (this was more than a decade ago) meant the outcome wasn't so positive.

Fortunately, I haven't had any medical issues as serious as that, and nor has my current wife or our daughter, but when we have had minor problems, we have had no problem seeing a GP on the same day, and we have generally seen a specialist within a few weeks of being referred.

I do find it ironic that, in the horrendously expensive and bureaucratic American health care system, people have to wait an average of 24 days to see a doctor, and it can take more than 50 days in some places, but people still believe that systems like the NHS are uncaring and inefficient.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2017/03/19/doctor-wait-times-soar-amid-trumpcare-debate/#75ecccb2e740

Americans are being conned by people with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo and who keep pushing the idea that "socialised medicine" is the work of the devil. The election of Trump shows that an awful lot of Americans are incredibly stupid, so I have no expectation that they'll ever figure out they're being taken for a ride.