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2ndtryagain t1_je1ykr2 wrote

Reply to comment by OopsNotAgain in Hundreds of thousands to continue strikes and protests in France | France by bnh1978

Everyone jokes the our military budget is why we don’t have national health insurance, one of the real reason we don’t is if people didn’t worry about losing their health insurance they mind be more likely to protest in large numbers and for long periods.

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Affectionate_Talk781 t1_je26ozv wrote

But our current system actually spends more of a % of our GDP on healthcare than most euros do so it is not a matter of pure dollars. It comes down to the current system being inefficient in dollars per healthcare gained. We essentially have the worst of both worlds of it being mandatory but mostly private, thus allowing them to gauge prices. You also have the very unhealthy state of American citizens making healthcare prices more expensive

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