• Taalnazi@lemmy.world
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      It does, in the Netherlands (my country), we have universal private healthcare.

      We used to have universal public/singlepayer, but decades of liberal governance caused it to be privatised.

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      I live in such a country and private insurance exists here, still finds ways to screw over customers. We need more CEO murders

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        Also it’s bribes…ahem, sorry, lobby groups, are the reason why a lot of places with universal healthcare are letting those systems crumble.

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        I live in a country with free healthcare and private health insurance. I even have private health insurance. But I have it through a nun-profit organisation that pays out ninety-something cents in claims for every dollar of premiums paid. So I’m ok with it.

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      It does. Basically all countries with universal healthcare also have a private healthcare sector. It is another ironic fact that countries with universal healthcare has more freedom of choice than people have with the American healthcare system.

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      It does, and it’s the first step in destroying national health care.

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      In America, we don’t learn from watching others. Hell, we don’t even learn from our own mistakes.

      Come to think of it, we barely even learn in the first place.