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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Am I the only one that gets a chuckle out of the unintended humor in the NSFW tag in the title?
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I do, but then I remember why it's nsfw.
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Originally Posted by loquitur
Willravel, I remain to be persuaded that the cost benefits you're touting are likely to materialize (the French system runs deficits, for example), particularly outside the very short term. But even assuming that in terms of cash outlays, there will be some reduction of overall cost, at a certain point the rigidity built into the system will almost certainly affect it negatively, as it does almost every single government program ever invented - and severely degrade it after a relatively short adjustment period (certainly less than 10 years). Govt bureaucracies simply are not flexible, not adaptable, and highly resistant to being made so. Ever has it been so, ever will it be - which was the point of my post up above in #263.
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I demonstrated through verifiable sources that we pay more per capita on health care than any other industrialized country. I believe it was the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development that held the study on health care expenses of the industrialized nations including the US. The amount of GDP that is spent on healthcare in the US is staggering, dwarfing even France who has the best health care in the world according to the massive WHO study released a few years back (and nothing has changed since then).