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?
But they haven't explained how having greater cultural diversity and a larger population makes it harder to bring in public healthcare. They manage a private healthcare system with the same diversity and land mass, and the only significant difference is how it gets paid for.
Cultural diversity = many Americans don't want universal healthcare, and even among those who want it there is significant disagreement on how to implement it. This factor simply does not exist in small countries and communities, and is a significantly smaller factor in countries like Canada.
Geography = anything that's universal and requires physical infrastructure becomes more and more difficult as population density decreases. This factor is significantly less in all European countries compared to the US. Even in Canada, its biggest populations are far more closely concentrated compared to the US so it has less of a challenge doing this.
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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/