In this thread, brazil84 & curlcoat keep insisting that socialized medicine as practiced in Canada, or as in Australia, or New Zealand, or Germany, or the United Kingdom, wouldn’t work in the United States of America, or might not work, because the USA is too different.
We have an underclass, brazil84 says. As if other countries with similar cultural backgrounds don’t have any such thing. Um, what?
“Canada is not the United States,” curlcoat says. Of course not, if they were the same, we couldn’t contrast them!
But hey, the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, & Germany all have similar cultural heritage, with (Anglophone except for Germany) dominant cultures dealing with racial minorities & lots of immigration at various points mucking that up. And they have similar political issues, being federal systems. And they all make some form of UHC work.
OK, explain it to me. How can Germany afford UHC, with all the Turks & other Ausländer intruding upon it; & Canada, a tiny country with dangerously liberal immigration laws, afford it; & the USA, with a fantabulously wealthy high-tech sector & some of the vastest stretches of sustainably arable land in the world, not afford it?
I’m starting a Pit thread so you can give it to me straight: No more passive-aggressive “just my opinion.” Explain to me what’s so fucking impossible, with clear comparisons to these countries as they actually are, not the superficial monolithic ideas of them you probably carry in your head.
Can you do it?