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Comment by ThomPete

That's because you haven't considered how big the US is and you haven't considered that the US is mostly a land of immigrants not a land of people who lived their almost all their lives for several generations.

Healthcare systems like the scandinavian are established over decades as the young needs to pay for the old until they get old themselves and have to get covered by the young.

This kind of system is more or less impossible in the US and it would be extremely expensive.

That doesn't mean the current system in the US is any good, it's horrible to say the least. But the scandinavian dream isn't possible in the US and I have yet to see anyone showing any actual proposal that would work given the setup with federal and state and what they can decide.

parent ThomPete 8 years ago

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