> I guess in America we can never admit to looking to other countries and have to pretend nobody else has figured out healthcare.
There are some problems which exist in America which don't exist in other countries.
Take for instance, when the rest of the world talks about how they ban guns and therefore they have no gun crimes, giving that advice to America is like if Chinese people were giving advice to Australia that they banned Kangaroos, and now they don't have a Kangaroo problem, so why can't Australia do the same?
America will not have universal healthcare like all these other countries for many reasons, which are very American in nature:
* Americans won't accept the huge tax rates which will follow it, calculations show that there would be a 20% tax increase across all income groups to fund it.
* Universal Healthcare would be the single biggest issue on which Democrats and Republicans will fight, win/lose elections, on whether to cut its funding, whether to expand it.
* America is ethnographically different than other countries. Currently our biggest 'universal' service is Courts and Police. Add Healthcare to it, and next thing we know there is an added accusation of systematic racism against certain minorities.
I dont believe there would need to be a 20% tax rate increase because we already pay far more per person in the US than anywhere else in the world (mostly)
I think it's mostly not going to work here because a lot of people will have to take paycuts (not just doctors / nurses but "administrators" "billing co-ordinators" drug companies and drug resellers, etc etc ...) always follow the $$$
There are some problems which exist in America which don't exist in other countries.
Take for instance, when the rest of the world talks about how they ban guns and therefore they have no gun crimes, giving that advice to America is like if Chinese people were giving advice to Australia that they banned Kangaroos, and now they don't have a Kangaroo problem, so why can't Australia do the same?
America will not have universal healthcare like all these other countries for many reasons, which are very American in nature:
* Americans won't accept the huge tax rates which will follow it, calculations show that there would be a 20% tax increase across all income groups to fund it.
* Universal Healthcare would be the single biggest issue on which Democrats and Republicans will fight, win/lose elections, on whether to cut its funding, whether to expand it.
* America is ethnographically different than other countries. Currently our biggest 'universal' service is Courts and Police. Add Healthcare to it, and next thing we know there is an added accusation of systematic racism against certain minorities.