| badgenome said: Which might have something to do with why they spend less on health care. A cause, rather than an effect. We also spend a great deal more per capita on education than every European country save Switzerland and Norway (and Luxembourg, which isn't so much a country as a rumpus room with an anthem), with much poorer results to show for it. I can't see why full nationalization of the health care sector would go any better. Trying to make the wasteful Leviathan that is the US federal government run like these little boutique countries seems like a fool's errand to me. |
But even big countries like Great Britain, Germany, France, Japan, are all healthier than us and spend a smaller percentage of their gdp, despite having nationalized universal healthcare.
As for our education system, rich towns use additional tax revenue to bolster their public schools. I would know since I lived in a town that used this model to keep its high school well financed and constantly had the school ranked as one of the best in the state and country. Poor inner city towns don't have this benefit and lack basic resources to effectively teach their kids.
I'm not saying that the government is going to come in and everything is going to be fine and dandy. But I really don't think a corporation that's more concerned with its bottom line, is going to worry about implementing preventative healthcare or care about the general wellbeing of people in society.
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