Only under VERY specific circumstances, as in, you're either absolutely physically or mentally unable to earn any income, or you're a prisoner. Selling of your possessions wouldn't be enough to be eligible, otherwise all the homeless would benefit from it, which they don't.

Companies pay the triff and (eventually) pass it onto to consumers just like they do with corporation tax. All taxes on companies are indirect taxes on consumers.

The antivaxers making a name for themselves now are all doing it when there's no real emergency and most seem a bit tapped in the head. The antivaxers at the start of the pandemic were doing it for political reasons. Hopefully a more dangerous and virulent covid strain returns and we can expose all the hypocrites while we play our Switch 2 under another lockdown.

I invite you to come to America poor and see exactly how much you get.  I believe you have absolutely no ideal what you are talking about.  Being seen and being treated is a whole different story when you do not have any money.  While welfare works much better if you are a child, try believing as an adult you will get the same treatment with no money and poor.

So let's tax billionairre companies more just like Trump is doing.

Pyro as Bill is indeed wrong about everyone who needs Medicaid getting it. Having said that, a fifth of all Americans get their insurance through Medicaid and many more than that (up to a third of the population in some states) qualify, but don't apply for it, because they think they don't qualify. It would be hard to find an American who doesn't have a family or friend who has gotten insurance through Medicaid. Copays for Medicaid are about $0-$5, and hospital stays around $20/week. So essentially "free" in the average European sense (multipayer universal healthcare with some cost sharing.)

How easy it is to get Medicaid and how much it covers (beyond a federal minimum) varies from state to state though. Purple states, ironically, have the best Medicaid services because elections are competitive and it is an easy win for politicians. A good number of blue states have inclusive Medicaid as well. Red states lag behind, considerably. 

Most homeless people qualify for Medicaid but not having a home makes the application process tricky and you have to actively apply to get coverage beyond "emergency medicaid." Hospitals will have homeless people auto-applied into emergency Medicaid because it is a way for them to get paid by the state for mandatory emergency care. 

Regressive and progressive are subjective. My point stands.

Pedantry. There's plenty of (covid) antivaxers who are still provax. Point stands.

You aren't making sense, you're saying it's both free but at the same time you have to sell everything you own, so it's not free, Lol. The USA does have good medical treatment though, I never said the actual medical treatment itself was bad, but I will also say that "if you can afford it" is a pretty massive caveat in many peoples cases and is dismissive that millions simply cannot afford it.

Healthy nations are better for the country overall, a stronger workforce, a happier nation, etc. Now imagine all those people living pay check to pay check or on welfare, barely being able to afford electricity or food bills, they don't even have to be in a medical emergency life or death situation to now be in debt by the tune of thousands, now they're struggling even more, what does that lead to? Even worse living conditions, even more medical problems, both physically and mentally and mental health is equally as important as physical health.

I'm not even someone who is against having a private option either, Lol. But you have extreme rose tinted views on America and I had to call out your hyperbolic nonsense with actual first hand experience myself as a British citizen, I feel like the argument keeps changing slightly though, first it was a ridiculous hyperbole comment about healthcare applied to Europe as a whole, when that was called out, the argument changed to welfare specifically in Romania.

Breaking News: Eastern Europe is less wealthy than Western Europe.

Sometimes I'm curious how much debt me and my family would have been in living in America from my medical bills, then I think who cares, I don't have to think about that, my last trip to the hospital was like a stay at a hotel, 3 meals a day, my own room, amazing staff, my own shower, I was almost disappointed they discharged me so quickly! Lmao. Jk.

They do both have major issues though, but that's the perks of Tories mismanaging everything for over 10 years.

LNG: Canada.

Military Hardware: We'll produce them ourselves now. Those 800 Billion € will get spent for the most part on European products, and Military Hardware production is increasing fast throughout Europe.

Net loser: The US, especially considering that until the 2010's more than half of the military hardware bought in Europe was American-made. But going forward this number will go down drastically entirely due to Trump. I'm sure the Military-industrial Complex in the US is very thankful already to Trump already for losing hundreds of billions in potential contracts by default already now.