And yet, Medicare -- which is a government health care system -- is one of the most popular government programs. "Medicare For All" is polling very high, pushing 70%. Hmmmmmm.
Sorry not sorry, but those claims are bull****.
Overall, wait times in the US are the same as everywhere else. Anyone who needs urgent care gets it right away. As a result, health care outcomes in nations with UHC are as good, if not better, than the US. E.g. infant mortality is higher in the US than almost every nation in Europe.
Plus, if you can't afford health insurance, then you can't afford that MRI, no matter how fast you can make an appointment.
lol
News flash!
Private health insurance works using the exact same principle. You pay into the system, regardless of whether you are health or sick. The payments are pooled, and distributed to the people who happen to be sick at any given moment. The system forces you to pay for someone else's care. Oh, and to enrich the top executives and shareholders.
In theory, you can choose not to have health insurance; in practice, it's risking bankruptcy. Among other issues is that hospitals set sky-high prices for care, because that's a starting point for negotiations with insurers; however, if you're uninsured, you get socked with the full cost. If you don't have insurance and you have a heart attack, it could cost you $50,000 or more, not including the cost of care after the heart attack.
Unsurprisingly, the US system is horribly inefficient -- as shown by how medical expenditures per capita in the US are more than double the OECD average:
And let's not forget that "medicine for profit" bestows upon our society wonderful gifts like the opiate crisis, or before the ACA, refusing coverage to individuals or their so-called "pre-existing conditions" in order to keep insurer's profits high.