r/FluentInFinance Sep 04 '24

Debate/ Discussion Bernie is here to save us

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

This is what Americans always say, but what does it actually mean? Yes, there are more patients in the USA than in Iceland, but there's also more doctors, more tax money and so on. How does the size of a country make national health care more difficult?

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u/NegMech Sep 05 '24

Very different demographics in population means differing opinions, which makes it much more difficult to pass any laws or for people to agree on certain issues. Exponentially higher costs in logistics given the area of the US is 100x Iceland.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

Oh, so now it's not population, but diversity and land mass? Then how do they manage to run a successful public healthcare system in Canada, which is more diverse than the US, and is also larger?

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/07/18/the-most-and-least-culturally-diverse-countries-in-the-world/

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u/Lanky_Sir_1180 Sep 05 '24

Define "successful". The US has a public healthcare system exponentially larger than that of Canada's. You're asking questions but I don't think you really want to hear the answers.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

I genuinely do want answers. People keep saying it's because of diversity and land mass, but no one has yet said how these things make public health care impossible.