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The US is an absolute joke of a country. Just vote candidates in who will make universal healthcare a reality rather than spawn new industries to further extract value. /Australian

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This is a solid step towards making universal healthcare a reality. Remember, universal healthcare != socialized healthcare. The US has “universal food”, as does Australia. Food isn’t just “free” for everyone.

That won’t change the costs if anything it will make them rise and rise faster. You have one payer: one large, infinitely wealthy entity paying the bill it’s human nature for participants to jack up rates

This would be a great argument if we didn't have literally all of Europe, Japan, Australia, etc. to conclusively debunk it.

> The U.S. spends about twice what other high-income nations do on health care but has the lowest life expectancy and the highest infant mortality rates, a new study suggests.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-spending/u-s-healt...

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