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(12,712 posts) Thu Dec 5, 2019, 10:28 PM Dec 2019

Sweden Provides Free Higher Education, Universal Healthcare, Free Daycare -- Why Can't the U.S.? [View all]

The issue that people bring up about scalability is highly debatable since larger countries than Sweden are able to do this. I think that issue is one of the most prominent roadblocks and should be investigated and debated more.

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Sweden Provides Free Higher Education, Universal Healthcare, Free Daycare -- Why Can't the U.S.? [View all] Newest Reality Dec 2019 OP

✔️ blm Dec 2019 #1

It's a combination of the MIC and the 1% stealing from the treasury. Crowman2009 Dec 2019 #2

Sure. Aussie105 Dec 2019 #7

I can tell you a little about european countries and their health care. My granddaughter & her napi21 Dec 2019 #3

If We Hat that...... McKim Dec 2019 #4

The problem is structural, from the Constitution to the tax base structure of school funding. ancianita Dec 2019 #5

A comparison of (averaged) take-home salaries for 40 countries. Lock him up. Dec 2019 #6

OMG OMG OMG We can't raise that kind of money!!!! Jakes Progress Dec 2019 #8

This is sort of a lateral tangent . . . Collimator Dec 2019 #9

Good point... Newest Reality Dec 2019 #10

I'll break out the excuses... tenderfoot Dec 2019 #11

Just wanted to chime in on one point . . . Collimator Dec 2019 #12

Yes. Scholarship students have to keep their grades up too. tenderfoot Dec 2019 #13