[throwaway0a5e]

>It also takes an exceptional amount of knee jerk assery to interpret my comment as "change the US system to the Belgian one"

Well you literally said "I'd sign up for a significant increase in my taxes if the US system were replaced by the system that I experienced in Belgium for the first 30 years of my life" so why don't you tell me how that was supposed to be interpreted?

America shares a very long border with a nation with a functional healthcare system and we generally prefer to compare to them.

[tverbeure]

I wrote "why not advocate for systems". Notice the plural form. Did you assume that by writing "all over the world", I actually meant the superpower of Belgium?

What all those systems have in common is that they are a mix of free market and strong regulation. The opposite of "let's do even more free market than what we have now."

I don't know how the US can get there. It's probably impossible, just like school shootings and the "No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" argument.