Re:Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
by fakedang on Monday April 12, 2021 @11:33AM
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I don't know why you want to draw comparisons to the Australian system here. We're comparing European to American, and the vast amount of ignorant thought in Europe about how healthcare is free.
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Re:Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
by FireBeyond on Monday April 12, 2021 @04:52PM
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Because the comment I replied to mentioned nothing to do with Europe?
> There never has been and will never be 'free healthcare for all' - its not free, it's only free for some people if some other people pay for it.
That's what I replied to. I also mentioned living with one European system, and a similar Australian system that are both largely considered "effectively free (or at least, out of pocket)", and how no-one living under either system that I've been a part of, thinks that their healthcare is "literally free".
In fact, most of the tropes about "It's not really free, you're paying for it with taxes!" come from Americans bemoaning the insidious evil that they consider "healthcare for all" systems to be. It's a straw man, built up by some to decry "socialism".