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Oh yes. Everyone who disagrees with me has a limited mindset. You could have used your open mind to read about a European (within this comment thread) who is having trouble with "the right" in his country:

> This is a principal reason why the US was crossed off my list of countries where I would work and live. I fight against the privatization that is occurring within healthcare in my native country, Iceland. We used to have the Scandinavian model but decades of attacks from the right-wing Independence Party has broken our healthcare system. The next phase described by Chomsky is handing it over to private capital since people are outraged that it doesn't work anymore. I'm sickened by the development and feel a little like an old man screaming at the desert wind.

It's exactly your kind of Utopian mindset that needs to change. Please read the news of countries other than the US. You might be surprised at the amount of controversy that surrounds universal healthcare systems.




The controversy that surrounds universal healthcare systems goes something like this:

"I am disappointed by my treatment in the system!"

"Do you want to privatise it?"

"Absolutely not."


In the US, the first sentence holds true, it just costs a lot more.


How many people out there would honestly be willing to trade their universal healthcare system for a US style system?


Alfie Evans' parents probably would...as would some of the people waiting months to get a simple MRI.


Alfie Evans didn't have a brain anymore, and would have probably been pulled even quicker in the US system. Insurance agencies are quick to deny funding.




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