Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years? A blank check in 1993

Re:Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years?... by JamesBarney on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @05:52PM (#24347540)

Americans are over 300 million people, and like Europe we are not homogenous.

And many Americans believe European healthcare, education, and infrastructure are far superior to the U.S.

The problem is that despite Europe being far more efficient at health, education, and infrastructure spending it also has a wide range of policies. So it's difficult to determine which policies are driving the increase in efficiency and which aren't.

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Re:Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years?... by coredog64 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @06:52PM (#24348068)

There’s no such thing as “European healthcare”. European countries (and I’m going to ignore Brexit and include the UK) approach provision of healthcare in a unique way. For example, the UK has the NHS, Switzerland has insurance mandates, and France has strict regulation of private insurance companies.

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Re:Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years?... by mschuster91 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:14AM (#24350813)

Yet all of Europe has one thing in common: people don't go bankrupt over surgeries because 99.99% of people have an insurance.

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Re:Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years?... by JamesBarney on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @07:46PM (#24348452)

Yeah this was my point.

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Re:Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years?... by x86_64Ubuntu on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @09:53PM (#24349252)

What does homogeneity have to do with anything?

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Re:Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years?... by JamesBarney on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:09AM (#24350153)

>Americans are absolutely, utterly, unable to imagine that the way they do things is not the best. It's incredible to watch from outside.

Treats Americans like they all have the same beliefs, i.e. homogenous.

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