Millenials: move away if you can. USA is over. We killed it.

[Kentonio]

69. The stuff about healthcare can be a bit misleading

The UK has the same concerns (thanks to their asshole conservative government with their nonsensical 'austerity' policies), but you have to consider that long waiting times are bad, but the patients aren't paying for the treatment and the waiting times are usually highly unusual and heavily criticized. You can usually find examples of it happening, but what you'll never, ever find is cases where patients don't receive treatment because they can't afford it. They don't have cancer patients going bankrupt over healthcare costs, they don't have people fired because of illness, it's a very different world.

Re the EU army, a couple of points, firstly its still very much theoretical. It's something the EU would like to move ahead with as the threats from Russia increase, but even then they're talking about a seperate body and increasing cooperative training not the countries actually replacing their national armies. Considering they currently have 28 (soon to be 27) countries with largely different training and equipment, its a logical step and would be far more efficient. One of the main problems is that its not widely understood in Europe, and mistakenly seen as some desire for a more aggressive policy which isn't the concept at all.

It's also worth mentioning that a lot of the reason an EU army is even being discussed is because Europe is very quickly losing faith in America and its desire to work as an allied force to them. The damage Trump has done to US/European relations goes way beyond anything the American media have covered. Most people I know here look at America with sheer bewilderment now. Not just because Trump is president, but because they see half of voting Americans having voted for him and supporting him. That's difficult for them to understand, considering how utterly anathemic he is to European values.