Health care around the world but not in the USA? Why?

Echo opinion letter published in Tulsa World, by Adam Deatherage, Tulsa Oklahoma:

DATELINE, Healthcare:  Yes, universal health care does work and exists, in some form or other, in every developed country in the world, except in the United States.

Japan got it in 1961. Canada in 1984. Italy in 1978. Norway, France, Sweden, Australia, Germany, etc. They solved this problem decades ago, and somehow Americans have been conned into believing that something the rest of the planet has does not work.

Even places considered bastions of free market capitalism, like Singapore and Hong Kong, have it.

In America, our health care reimbursement system is a scam.

We pay large monthly premiums (that go up every year) then pay deductibles and have no idea if the treatment or medication you will need is covered.

One has no idea how much services or medication costs. Medicine in the rest of the world costs a fraction of what it does here.

You have to repeat this process for insurance on eyes and teeth. No entity in our country is allowed to negotiate drug prices like other nations do.

Will you be taxed for it? Yes. But Americans forget to subtract their current health care costs: no premium, deductible, etc.

Normal, everyday Americans would pay significantly less for health care.

We need to sift through the partisan nonsense and look at this issue for what it is. Is it better for you to have guaranteed insurance from Medicare in exchange for a small tax increase? Would you spend less money on health care or not? We already know the answer.....

Maine Writer- people do not understand how health care reimbursement works. Moreover, private insurance companies prefer to keep the ignorance about his topic going and going because that's how they can leverage their mistrust and, in so doing, rake in profits.