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by run4yourlives 4745 days ago
Nonsense.

It works in every other developed nation on the planet AND we spend close to 50% per capita you do right now.

You spend so much on Medicare/Medicaid because of your system; the US government is simply just a big employer.

The idea that the US is somehow operating under a different set of rules for basic math is mind boggling to me.
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sinnerswing 4745 days ago
It DOES not "work in every other developed nation on the planet"

spain, greece, germany, france, cyprus and 99% of all socialist countries have declining economies, high unemployment rate, high taxes, ZERO innovation, etc. Hey but they have free health care! horay for socialism!

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run4yourlives 4745 days ago
The US stands alone in its approach to health care.

See here: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/06/her...

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sinnerswing 4745 days ago
Yeah that's because we're not a bunch of socialists. :)

You HAVE to provide universal health care because there are NO jobs in your pathetic country.

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run4yourlives 4744 days ago
I live in Canada. Unemployment is less that the US, and so is our budget.

You were saying?

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sinnerswing 4744 days ago
That's because the Canadian government employs 3.6 Million government employees out of 17 Million of your total labor force. WOW! talk about big government! That's almost 25% of your total labor force!

% of gov't employees in the US is only 15% of our labor force. Considering the size of our country, military, etc. that figure is small compared to Canada's labor force-gov't employee ratio.

NICE TRY ;)

I get it that you're proud of your universal healthcare system. I honestly wish we have one but the issue is COST. if you can think of a way to implement universal healthcare without bankrupting our country i want to hear it.

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