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by ThatGeoGuy
3950 days ago
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> The problem with the U.S. and why universal health care potentially wouldn't work is in terms of scale. I believe grecy commented on this quite well, but as someone from Canada, I hardly believe this to be true. Sure, you have 318M+ citizens, while Canada only has around 35M+ citizens. However, the United States is more wealthy than Canada, by a similar factor of ten: US GDP 2014: 17.42 Trillion
Canada GDP 2014: 1.79 Trillion [1] http://data.worldbank.org/country/Canada
[2] http://data.worldbank.org/country/United-States To say it wouldn't work at scale is a gross exaggeration. I would argue that you shouldn't just assume that healthcare wouldn't work. If most of the money wasn't appropriated between Big Business (TM) and the Military Industrial Complex, I'm sure it would hardly be an issue to introduce Canadian-style healthcare at a country-wide scale. |
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