Re:Switzerland in the age of automatic exchange of banking i...
by DiogenesKynikos on Thursday September 19, 2019 @03:20AM
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There are plenty of large European countries with good healthcare systems: Germany, France and the UK, for example. I don't think there's a reason why countries with 60-80 million residents can establish good healthcare systems, but countries with 300 million people can't (even China, a much larger and poorer country than the US, is approaching universal coverage). But even if that were the case, individual US states could step in and set up their own universal healthcare systems.
> There is no Mississippi in Germany, those populations are in other countries.
It depends on what you mean by that comparison. Germany relatively recently absorbed a much poorer East Germany. There are still states like Mecklenburg-Vorpommern that are much poorer than the average in Germany. Yet they're all integrated into Germany's very good healthcare system. It could be the same in the US, but it isn't, for political reasons.
> If you compare the whole European Union to the US the disparity is much smaller.
This is not true. The European Union member states have a much greater range of GDP/capita than US states.
> There is no Mississippi in Germany, those populations are in other countries.
It depends on what you mean by that comparison. Germany relatively recently absorbed a much poorer East Germany. There are still states like Mecklenburg-Vorpommern that are much poorer than the average in Germany. Yet they're all integrated into Germany's very good healthcare system. It could be the same in the US, but it isn't, for political reasons.
> If you compare the whole European Union to the US the disparity is much smaller.
This is not true. The European Union member states have a much greater range of GDP/capita than US states.