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Which? Because without specifics it's just casting aspersions on the whole concept of universal healthcare. Especially since a major part of OP's point was about costs and insurers.


I feel you. I hate seeing the talking point about seeing other doctors being ‘harder’ in countries with socialized medicine. Most of the debate in the US is centered around how one single system works: Canada. Canada’s system is pretty restrictive compared to pretty much every other European or Latin American country with socialized health care, and conservatives in America have latched to a few shortcomings of that system to paint every other system as worse than the US, when in reality the vast majority of Canadians themselves would favor their systems to the US.

It’s almost impossible to have a real conversation about socialized medicine here without encountering a myriad talking points like that one.




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