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> People should pay for their healthcare directly, and the government should provide for those who require serious, expensive treatments (after a payment that is some percentage of their income).

It's cheaper for the government to pay for everything. If you incentivize skipping check-ups and minor treatments they turn into large expensive care.

The rest of the western world has had universal health care for ~50 years now and it works better in every other western country than it does in the US. The US should just choose a country and copy it.



> The US should just choose a country and copy it.

Just because X policy works elsewhere doesn't mean it would have the same effect in another country.


No, but the fact that it does work somewhere gives it a huge advantage over completely untested plans.




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