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Originally Posted by tore
To be honest, it's hard to tell, but I don't see why it shouldn't work. As far as I know looking at the top 10, noone's tried and failed either.
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It could be. Those ten countries do certainly represent a variety of different ways of doing things, though, with a fairly consistent lack of success. When there are so many people it seems like task of the government serving them all adequately becomes exponentially more difficult.
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Originally Posted by tore
Of course the change would have to be gradual and change itself could put a strain on things. If everyone got free health care at the same time, that would cost the goverment a lot of money because a lot of people would go and get treatment for previously untreated medical problems which means a lot of pressure on the new healthcare system over a short amount of time. When the system has been in place for a while, that's no longer a problem. I guess there's always bumps in the road like that and I just think people should be willing to stick with it past the bumps and aim for good long-term strategies.
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I support universal health care and most people I know do as well. But obviously not everyone agrees. One of this biggest issues in this country is getting people to work together on things, something which I think is kind of unavoidable when you have a large, diverse population that is also very spread out geographically.