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by kensai 3500 days ago
> Except not everyone paying the same amount. Most pay nothing. That is, in socialist health care system.

Ehm, the national health care systems in Europe are paid by our taxes. The only persons who do not pay to them are those that are entitled NOT to pay (below poverty level, children, etc).

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Here even folks below the poverty level pay a little bit on the VAT taxes and so on, as do children. (Even if the money they are spending originated with the taxpayers)