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Re:Pooling and Sharing of wealth make everyone's wealth grow... by cinntaile on Saturday September 02, 2023 @05:13AM (#37359783)
It's just a matter of time before those systems look more like the situation in the UK. Eventually they all have to face the same economic realities of costs rising much faster than the tax income. The UK is just faster at internalizing this, which is a good thing imo.

I think we need a much better understanding of why costs are rising so much (not just as a result of the pandemic, even before that) and what can be done to mitigate that.

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Re:Pooling and Sharing of wealth make everyone's wealth grow... by generic92034 on Saturday September 02, 2023 @06:19AM (#37360140)
Well, most of those public health care systems in EU countries are working at least since WW2. So I am not quite sure why now is the time they suddenly cannot work anymore, in principle. Sure, governments can ruin any public health care system. But eventually voters could notice (or at least one would hope that).
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Re:Pooling and Sharing of wealth make everyone's wealth grow... by heavyset_go on Saturday September 02, 2023 @07:32PM (#37366376)
Germany got universal healthcare in the 1800's under Otto von Bismarck.
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