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In reply to the discussion: So where will the extra $16 trillion come from to pay for Sanders' plan? [View all]ehrnst
(32,640 posts)to get where they are now?
And what things were like when they started out 60-70 years ago? You know, Social Security didn't start out covering what it does now when it got started over 70. It gradually expanded as life expectancies and the economy expanded. It didn't start out paying out to kids when a parent dies, and the health care systems that got started back then didn't cover what they do now.
And that if they started today, with the system that we have, which has baked into the economy for 70 years, you really think that they could establish that in eight years? With no disruption to the health care delivery system, withoutscores of rural hospitals shutting down?
And with a rural population in this country that is larger than the whole population of many countries in Europe - along with Australia, whose population is not only less but 80% urban (making health care delivery much easier for the cities - but if you are out in the wilds, well, you're out of luck.) The US is 65% urban, making the higher cost of rural health care delivery neccessary for more people...
Can you also specify what "the" "European model" is?
https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2011/may/11/european-healthcare-services-belgium-france-germany-sweden
What kind of Universal Health Care would not "increase tax by a single cent" - and I assume you are talking about all of the following - payroll tax, business tax, sales tax, state income tax, property tax, state and federal income tax?
Where is this plan, and can it also abolish mosquitoes?