I always notice that one thing that's rarely discussed is that there's more to it than just healthcare. Essentially, it's a way to train medical staff. Imagine if you took your car to a mechanic and they said well I've only fixed three cars in my life, wish me luck!

At the core, MAGA and similar high-control groups reject universal systems that reduce suffering, like healthcare, paid leave and climate action, because they require shared responsibility, which conflicts with their hyper-individualist, anti-collectivist worldview. Instead, they promote piecemeal, market-based solutions that prioritize corporate profits while shifting costs to individuals.

This isn’t just bad policy, it’s a deliberate choice to maintain power for a few at the expense of many. Many countries have much lower per-capita costs, better health outcomes and longer life expectancy than the US. Even red states like Arkansas and Montana expanded Medicaid and saw reduced mortality, lower medical debt and improved mental health.

These solutions work when seriously implemented, and they would work here too if enough people prioritized collective well-being over selfish ideologies masquerading as virtue. The decline in quality-of-life measures in the U.S. over the past decade reflects this failure. Doubling down will make all this worse, even though the propaganda from controlling groups will keep blaming minorities and other red herrings and many will fall for it as they do sadly. We really can break free from the indoctrination and see the truth!

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Fuck, man, our Nazis are not even as good as the actual Nazis.

Universal Healthcare are threaten everywhere, not because their are not balanced. Lobby from Insurance company made politics diminish income from healthcare and legalize private solution.

For example in France, the healthcare system covered almost everything and was balanced fo decade (1946 - 2000), thanks to a socialization of income. At first the system was own only by Trade Unions, but now half of it's leaders come from the bosses association.

In Europe, we have to fight against the US models for decades, and we have lost some of our health coverage because of the privatization. As an example among many death and suffering, this year is a record of death-born in France.

But in America nobody wants it, support for universal healthcare is barely above 70%!

unfortunately not true.

for example, Spain ended universal healthcare on 2012. it was recovered fully just this years

its even funnier when you realise american taxpayers pay for israels universal healthcare

That's why they won't let US citizens have it, and pretend it's something else when they get old enough for Medicare.

Mexico. Add Mexico

Fucking Israel only has universal healthcare because we in the US pay for it! Fucking bullshit they get it and we don't but we are paying for it.

I am in Australia, and I can guarantee you that there are lobbyists in the capital every single day trying to have it stopped.

I’m worried Canada might end up being the first one.

Fuck Doug Ford

The USA gives millions of dollars to these countries... Germany received 10 million from the USA in 2025.

Why does Germany get 10 million and universal healthcare, and we get 0 million and $1000 shots of insulin?

Well, as long as we take care of Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell, that's our number one priority.

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Japan 1938

Maybe not universal...

Okay, but how many of those countries have a right-wing political party that cuts funding every time they get political power, until the system is running nearly badly enough that they can say privatization will fix it?

NHS costs 4600$ per recipient.

Current US public spending on healthcare (Medicaid, medicare, ACA subsidies, Veteran healthcare...) is 5600$ per capita (not recipient)...

We could lower taxes and give everyone free healthcare.

Fuck it, that extra 1000$ can go straight to the president pocket if he gives us Medicare for all.

I appreciate the sentiment but let's be real about Australia's adoption of universal healthcare:

• Medibank begins in 1975 after the passing of legislation by a joint sitting of Parliament on 7 August 1974. It had only a short period of operation before the Whitlam government was dismissed in what amounted to an attempted coup by the conservatives. (With some backing from a particular US Ambassador nicknamed "the coup-master" who was close to Rupert Murdoch and the Governer General.)
• 1976–1981: The conservative Malcolm Fraser Coalition government unwinds Medibank, scaling back universal funding and promoting private options.
• 1984: The Hawke government introduces the highly controversial Medicare system. It established basic health care for all Australians. It offers free-ish public hospital care, and "bulk-billing" for GPs through an income tax levy and creates a blended public system with private provider options.
• 1986: Edelsten pioneers the concept of 24-hour "superclinics" that offered completely bulk-billed services. Patients flock to his clinics which feature chandeliers, grand pianos, and mink-covered examination tables as his underlying business model was heavily driven by maximizing Medicare billing in a $100m overservicing scheme.
• 1997: Following a failed attempt to end the Medicare scheme while in opposition, the Howard government introduces the Medicare Levy Surcharge (MLS). This penalises high-income earners an extra 1.00% if they do not hold private hospital insurance. They also introduce the Lifetime Health Cover (LHC) charge which means if you're over 30 and buy private hospital cover later in life, you are charged an extra 2% for every year you were aged over 30 without cover in a scheme explicitly designed to prop up the private system.
• 2013: The Gillard Labor government puts a "temporary" freeze on GP rebates as a budget-saving measure. This continues under successive governments until 2022, as government rebates fail to rise with inflation or the true cost of running a clinic, GPs are increasingly forced to abandon bulk-billing and charge patients high out-of-pocket private fees effectively killing the system by proxy.
• 2014: The NDIS is established to create a parallel social insurance architecture for long-term disability supports are funded with a 0.5% Medicare levy increase but funding for the NDIS is instantly being outpaced by demand.
• 2024: Reforms by the Albanese government to curb escalating costs and tighten rules around plan budgets and provider registration cut millions from receiving NDIS funding. However they also increase the rebate to make bulk billing once again viable for GPs.

The lesson is this. There are no permanent victories.

I'm also noticing that none started in any year starting with a 2. Not only did all those countries realize that universal healthcare is necessary, they realized it over 30 years ago. The US is so backwards.