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First of all most of those countries if not all have a way lower population than the USA second let me quote another poster from the universal healthcare thread on the USA forums.
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What does population have to do with it? Please explain the relevance of population. Most comparisons are per capita.
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"What government program has worked? What industry has the Government taken control over, and done a better job than the private sector? This Idea that the government can do a better job is a bunch of BS. You want to lower the quality of care for those who are insured.I've heard the number of 49million uninsured people in the US. Let us assume That all those people want health care(Which is a huge assumption but it really doesn't matter). The Population of the US is a round 300 million. With the simple math that i learned with my private school education, 251 million Americans are insured. You are going to screw up the Health care for 84% of US citizens? That doesn't seem very logical to me."
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And the answer to that was the VHA from the mid-90s to present. I had other points against it in that very same thread. The reason government programs don't work in America is because they are undermined by corporations who actually control Congress. Example: FDA is severely underfunded and blamed for many things. Due to Pharma lobbying, the FDA cannot require "new" drugs to be compared to existing rx. Due to Pharma lobbying, medicare cannot negotiate for prices. This is neither free market nor big government, this is a corporate republic.
Also, government healthcare is usually publically funded, but still privately delivered.