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Comment by andy99

1 day ago

Canadian healthcare is horrible, pretty sure public healthcare in the UK is also very bad. It’s not a given that somehow switching to public healthcare will make the US like Finland, Canada is much more likely.

It's all about the execution - UK NHS public healthcare was once easily the envy of the world (I'm from Australia, not the UK) and then it suffered decades of being white anted by Conservatives.

  • > then it suffered decades of being white anted by Conservatives

    On what planet does this not happen in America?

    • Of course it happens in the USofA, and more widely in the Americas.

      The challenge for citizens is active participation in oversight of management of the commons - rats will sneak into every granary otherwise.

Yes, when the government politicians hate public healthcare they can successfully sabotage it. That just means we need to structure it in a way that they can't. The examples given were all successful in their missions in the past before they were actively targeted.