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Countries with Free and Universal Healthcare

by keeganjw on 2/2/22, 5:33 PM with 4 comments

• by vlucas on 2/2/22, 8:10 PM

  Unfortunately I think the debate over universal healthcare in the US has probably been setback years _if not decades_ due to all the renewed mistrust in the media and government over its handling (or mishandling) of the pandemic response.

  We are at the point now where ~50%-ish of the US population has almost zero trust in government or media at all, and they are not going to look favorably on handing full control of healthcare and health decisions to the government.

  My feeling is that universal healthcare in the US is going to be impossible to pass right now, and difficult to even talk about seriously for the forseeable future until trust is rebuilt.

• by wikidani on 2/2/22, 7:02 PM

  As a non-american I'm starting to get a little bit tired of the american healthcare debate. All we hear is the fact that it doesn't work for a myriad of reasons, but healthcare in Europe and the other countries you guys like to quote is not as good as it might seem at a first glance and universal, state provided healthcare might not be the silver bullet people think it is for the US.