[shard972]

> The reason first world countries choose universal healthcare is that healthcare is a human right. Full stop.

I'm sure they said that in soviet Russia too. It's all good to say X,Y or Z is a right until you actually cash in on that right.

I mean you don't even have to look to the soviet union, what is goinig on with the VA? Obama was working to fix that smaller universal healthcare system from actually just waiting years for people to die but I haven't heard any good news comming out of there recently.

The rest of your claims are just nonsensical in this context since your just assuming universal healthcare works because the government decrees it to be universal.

[komali2]

On Reddit, to responses like this ("America is incapable of universal healthcare because... Reasons") I like to link to the Wikipedia pages of the multitude of other countries with far lower GDPs solving the problem.

I can probably predict the response but on the chance I'll be surprised - why can't America solve the problem when Taiwan, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, Canada, Finland, Norway, etc etc etc have or nearly have?

(I have received healthcare in several of these countries and an readily prepared with counterpoints to the inaccurate "healthcare isn't good / lines are long in those countries" arguments, fair warning)

[cmurf]

Americans pay double in health care costs per capital than any industrialized nation. And we don't have better outcomes. All of those countries have universal healthcare. Citation, OECD.