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Re:Build Your Own ‘Medicare for All’ Plan. Beware: There Are... by dragonwriter on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:33PM (#19227190)
> No country on earth with single payer or other universal coverage has anywhere near the number of citizens nor geographic or social diversity as the US.

That's both not true (the PRC exists, and alone is sufficient to disprove that no country with universal coverage exceeds the US on any of the measures you listed) and not relevant, as none of those are significant per-capita or per-GDP healthcare cost drivers.

Re:Build Your Own ‘Medicare for All’ Plan. Beware: There Are... by AndrewKemendo on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:50PM (#19227365)
I'm sorry, just to be clear, you're making a serious contention that the PRC 1. Has universal healthcare (false) and 2. that it's something that is to be imitated?
Re:Build Your Own ‘Medicare for All’ Plan. Beware: There Are... by dragonwriter on Friday February 22, 2019 @02:04PM (#19228094)
> you're making a serious contention that the PRC 1. Has universal healthcare (false)

The PRC has universal healthcare coverage entitlement by national policy, financed and administered largely by local governments under national standards (with central subsidies to poorer regions), and has over 95% of the population covered through public-funded programs. [0]

> 2. that it's something that is to be imitated?

The claim was no country with certain features exists; being worthy of imitation was not one of the features.

I never advocated emulating the PRC either in general or in the specifics of their mechanism of addressing universal healthcare access; in fact, I specifically pointed out that, as well.as being false, the claim about countries sharing those features was irrelevant to the healthcare discussion (which implies that a country meeting the supposedly unmet description has no particular reason to have special status as a model for the US.)

[0] https://international.commonwealthfund.org/countries/china/

Re:Build Your Own ‘Medicare for All’ Plan. Beware: There Are... by AndrewKemendo on Friday February 22, 2019 @02:56PM (#19228572)
I'm familiar with the "claim" they stake, however the actual system has effectively nothing resembling a functional national system like the "OECD First World" systems that the US is being compared to.

That's saying nothing of its outcomes or service level by the way. Simply in reference to its structure.

It's not even in the same ballpark.