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Fair point, it isn’t “free” of course. But it is accessible to everyone. No copay/deductible/coinsurance bs.

> It is extremely hard in a highly advanced economy to provide quality healthcare at less than 10% of GDP.

In the US we pay 17% of GDP towards healthcare and tons of people still can’t afford it.



The general view of US healthcare is that not much of the money paid toward better health outcomes reaches the target.

A quote from another comment here is:

     Australia’s health system far outperforms the .. US healthcare system, which spends nearly twice as much per capita as Australia to deliver far worse outcomes — including Americans dying five years younger than us.


    > No copay/deductible/coinsurance bs.
Many highly developed countries have copays in their national health insurance programme.




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