What Spain gets right on Healthcare

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4 pointsdarshandsoni3 comments

Typically I am rather skeptical when a solution that works in other countries is proposed for US. Scale matters and something that works nicely, for example, in Norway (population of 5e6) may lead to very bad results when the population is 320e6. But Spain is sufficiently big with population of 46e6 so some extrapolations are possible.

Also, as far as I know to get access to the government-run healthcare in Spain one still needs an insurance. But its cost is just about 100USD/month per adult even for foreigners that live in Spain on private money and anybody with work is covered through taxes.

True. Solutions can't simply be copied and pasted across countries with very different population sizes, political systems, cultures etc. But I think the author takes this into account and isn't advocating for outright "do what they do", but is instead saying that the focus could go on things like restructuring insurance itself.

Naturally, with this issue now tangling with race, poverty and individual state laws it's an uphill battle.

The problem with getting any solution to work in the USA is not about scale, but politics and racism.

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