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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (19065)	8/31/2010 12:20:31 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Right, the first link you found from 2007....such a diligent researcher like you would be expected to look at more than one of the older links when so many newer ones were on the same list....gee, I wonder why you did that? thedefendersonline.com

To: Lane3 who wrote (19065)	8/31/2010 1:10:31 PM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 42652

Maybe it would be more fair to compare the available health care with the state's situation in general. All the former communist countries seem to have a public health system that is basically a continuation of the communist system, with a variety of private solutions popping up. West Europe seems to have a tax-based or tax-like health care system everywhere, just like tax-based school systems etc. If you go to countries where tax-funded schools are not widely available, you may find similar availability of tax-funded health care. It seems to me that almost all countries that have a real government, try to push public health statistics into improvements by spending tax money or using tax-like schemes for financing individual health care. In other words, it is not a matter of having it or not, but how much.