Even Russia figured this out.
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Hurrr healthcare is communism! Can't have that in muh country gun shot noises
"GUNS AND PEOPLE WHO BREED" ?
Godfreed?
Dude just really don't like George Reed.
Just so you know, a majority of Canadians want to either try or adopt the US system
The majority of Canadians, or the majority if Canadian politicians?
That first link says that most people want the government to pay a lot more... That doesn't really seem like "we want the US system"
For instance, almost six in ten (59%) would support the private delivery of publicly funded health services and a similar proportion (60%) is in favor of private healthcare for those who are able to afford it.
From that first link
You need extensive therapy
I'll gladly swap citizenship with any Canadian! Come and claim your coverage by our wonderful privatized healthcare system! No take backsies
Idiots are everywhere on this shithole of a planet
To be clear, universal healthcare is slowly failing in the UK
It really isn't. It was being undermined by political powers who wanted to line their own pockets with a private system.
The Tory playbook is to underfund and sabotage public interest so they can claim it doesn't work without private ownership.
we'll see what Starmer does. So far his gestures have sounded promising, but you never know
By design of the ruling parties, not because universal healthcare is impossible
One could argue ruling parties reducing funding for universal healthcare (reduction of giving to the poor) is inevitable.
#lateStageCapitalism
Because conservatives are deliberately sabotaging it.
And healthcare is an utter disaster in the US, your argument holds zero merit
USA:
- Has most powerful military in the world
Also:
- Can't prevent kids from getting mass murdered in school, and making it worse, it happens every week
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There was also just one in Wisconsin a day or two ago...
https://apnews.com/live/madison-wisconsin-school-shooting-updates
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The US is barely a developed nation. The Economist reclassified the US as a flawed democracy in 2022. There were also proposals by members of the UNCTAD to reclassify the US as a developing nation in 2023, a classification formerly known as third world. The proposals were unsupported by the World Bank.
I don't remember where I heard this, but someone a while back called America a "third-world country but with Walmarts." And while the "third-world" moniker is a bit dated and problematic, I think the rest fits pretty well.
The US is like the Two-Face or Jekyll/Hyde of developed nations. It’s more like a developing nation with islands of modernity AND Walmarts.
We have all this money, military, cultural influence, universities, businesses, and so many other by-the-numbers indicators of a modern society. But we don’t have the quality of life, and we just elected Donald Trump in goddamn 2024. Decisively so. Fuck.
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While Switzerland has universal health care it's just by virtue of mandating everyone to get insurance from a private insurer.
At least there is a basic insurance package called Grundversicherung, which the insurers have to accept you for that has defined coverage. But it doesn't cover luxury bones (teeth) or vision.
Anyway I'm just trying to say choose one of the other 31 to model the US system after.
Who has single payer that covers teeth and vision? And when I say vision I mean good glasses, not shit lenses.
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The US has never had a social contract outside of a few things like social security, medicare and medicaid. It's 335 million people lumped together with a good many of them doing everything they can to fuck everyone else over so they get a slightly bigger slice of the pie, unaware of the fact that if everyone worked together and looked out for one another, things would be much better for everyone.
Don't worry: our greedy politicians are trying to erode it in all 32 other countries too. They want to be rich like HMO CEOs but not live in America, and don't get the paradox.
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