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Originally Posted by TracyCoxx
National health care would probably be a nice thing to have... AS LONG AS it's at least up to the quality we have now, and we can afford it.
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Well, couldn't make it much lower.
WHO figures on quality of healthcare by country show a definite trend:
Socialised Healthcare
1 France
2 Italy
3 San Marino
4 Andorra
5 Malta
7 Spain
8 Oman
9 Austria
11 Norway
12 Portugal
13 Monaco
14 Greece
15 Iceland
16 Luxembourg
17 Netherlands
18 United Kingdom
19 Ireland
20 Switzerland
21 Belgium
22 Colombia
23 Sweden
25 Germany
26 Saudi Arabia
27 United Arab Emirates
29 Morocco
30 Canada
31 Finland
33 Chile
34 Denmark
36 Costa Rica
SEMI-socialised/privatised
6 Singapore
10 Japan
24 Cyprus
28 Israel
32 Australia
35 Dominica
37 United States of America
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Originally Posted by TracyCoxx
When national health care and the other stimulus packages are threatening the stability of the dollar it's time to wake up and smell the coffee.
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Oh, indeed. Like doing stuff such as taking the entire social security surplus of over 2 trillion dollars which would be enough to cover the next few decades and...spending it...on the...armed forces...?
Or giving the rich tax cuts so they can invest more money in China and India and get rid of more American jobs?
Damn right stuff like that needs to be dealt with to prevent harming your economy.