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by mahd43 3329 days ago
True, the US by no means has the best system overall, and some stuff is outright bad no doubt about it.

I'm just trying to say it's more complicated than Europe: free, good, public, fair for everyone USA: private, capitalistic, bad, unfair

Also 'Europe' as always is a vague term, there's a difference between Zurich Switzerland and some town in Serbia, Greece or Romania, but it's all Europe.

The U.S. health services for starters could be made cheaper by letting more foreign doctors in, but that has been lobbied against for years by the medical lobby itself on the grounds foreign doctors aren't as good, keeping salaries artificially high for many types of medical staff etc.