Re:Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care br...
by fastball on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:00PM
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If a French person needs urgent care in America they'll get it too. I think you're giving too much credit to "EU reciprocity agreements".
Nowhere did I claim that a functional health care system cannot be built in the US. Good straw man though.
Re:Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care br...
by beagle3 on Thursday May 03, 2018 @02:57AM
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Good straw man yourself! You did claim that whatever works in the EU has no reason to work in the US, and I only
Asked why not.
Also, the French man will get treated because of EMTALA but might be bankrupt by the event. It’s just that they buy/get insurance before they come (usually through their credit card issuer).
The EU has only one medical "FDA"-like authority, which is - in fact - a huge problem for the UK post Brexit because they have to set one up for themselves now.
The EU has, effectively, a EU-wide health care system. It is more federated than the US, by virtue of only recently become a union. It is also less uniform because of different history, tradition, and languages. These are things that make it harder to build than a US-wide, and yet, it works and is significantly more efficient than the US, while catering to more people.
Of course the existing US-wide health care system is not equivalent; it is dysfunctional. You claim, but fail to demonstrate, that a functional one cannot be built, despite example in the EU that faces harder objective conditions.