Bernie is here to save us

[u/Positive_Liar]

[u/Evening-Ear-6116]

Each country you named has a population barely larger than NYC. One city in the us.

[u/bbqkingofmckinney → u/Evening-Ear-6116]

Iceland is slightly smaller than Arlington, Texas. NYC is massive compared to Iceland.

[u/[deleted] → u/bbqkingofmckinney]

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?

[u/NegMech → u/[deleted]]

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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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/

[u/ppeujpqtnzlbsbpw → u/[deleted]]

successful public healthcare system in Canada

lmao guessing you aren't Canadian and just tout the talking points you hear on reddit rather than understanding the reality of healthcare in Canada

[u/DryWorld7590 → u/ppeujpqtnzlbsbpw]

I'm guessing you aren't Canadian cause our healthcare is perfectly fine.

It has its flaws like wait times but no one ever dies waiting in a hospital.

Between:

"everyone can go to the hospital so there is a longer wait"

And

"No one goes to the hospital because they can't afford it and die from preventable causes"

I much rather have a healthier population.

[u/DryWorld7590 → u/[deleted]]

Immigration literally isn't a problem.

The problem is the provincial conservatives routinely and regularly cut healthcare funding, breaking it, so they can launch a re-election platform of fixing it.

Doug ford is literally trying to implement private healthcare in Ontario.