We got free healthcare in europe that i pay for with atrociously high taxes. Yet whenever i actually need to visit a doctor i always go to a private one.
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#22Giving free healthcare is a good step, but the important question is how good will it be and how much will be covered. Brazil has 100% of its population (210M people) covered by free, single-payer, universal healthcare, resulting in a life expectancy of 75 years (US is 79, Japan and Switzerland with 83 IIRC). But your experience can vary dramatically. It all depends on how much money is actually being put on it (in h…
Still much better then no healthcare if you couldn't afford it before.
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#23We got free healthcare in europe that i pay for with atrociously high taxes. Yet whenever i actually need to visit a doctor i always go to a private one.
oh, where do you find private doctors in France?
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#24Giving free healthcare is a good step, but the important question is how good will it be and how much will be covered. Brazil has 100% of its population (210M people) covered by free, single-payer, universal healthcare, resulting in a life expectancy of 75 years (US is 79, Japan and Switzerland with 83 IIRC). But your experience can vary dramatically. It all depends on how much money is actually being put on it (in h…
Not necessarily a counterpoint but Chile's dual system -private and public, both with copay for most- gives them a life expectancy of 81.79 years, surpassing a lot of more developed countries with free universal healthcare.
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#25Giving free healthcare is a good step, but the important question is how good will it be and how much will be covered. Brazil has 100% of its population (210M people) covered by free, single-payer, universal healthcare, resulting in a life expectancy of 75 years (US is 79, Japan and Switzerland with 83 IIRC). But your experience can vary dramatically. It all depends on how much money is actually being put on it (in h…
Still much better then no healthcare if you couldn't afford it before.
Oh, sure, no question about that.
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#26To be read as - the elections are coming. Mr Modi is seeking a second term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_elections_in_India
NYT article to be read in tandem with this one
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-budget/with-electio...
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#27Giving free healthcare is a good step, but the important question is how good will it be and how much will be covered. Brazil has 100% of its population (210M people) covered by free, single-payer, universal healthcare, resulting in a life expectancy of 75 years (US is 79, Japan and Switzerland with 83 IIRC). But your experience can vary dramatically. It all depends on how much money is actually being put on it (in h…
Not necessarily a counterpoint but Chile's dual system -private and public, both with copay for most- gives them a life expectancy of 81.79 years, surpassing a lot of more developed countries with free universal healthcare.
Brazil's is also dual, everyone gets covered by the public system, but there are plenty of private systems.
And Chile is always a special case, the combination of natural resources, small population and good public systems does wonder for the country. Despite the extreme differences, I tend to compare Chile to the Nordic countries more than with LatAm.
Not sure if that's scalable to larger countries, which is always the big question.
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#29I just hope it works very well because it seems every year there is one new populist measure. There is already: a. Food Security which provides food to nearly 2/3rd of the population or 820 million people. b. Minimum Support prices for grains which was hiked in this budget. Farmers also get loan waivers. c. National Rural Employment Guarantee which provides employment to over 100 million people
Universal healthcare is cast as a 'populist' measure in the US. But if you look at data of cost of healthcare for nations applying universal healthcare vs those who do not in developed nations, India might rationally look at it as an economic efficiency measure. Agricultural supports also can be looked at with a political filter, but the US provides government back agricultural insurance as a positive economic measur…
> Universal healthcare is cast as a 'populist' measure in the US. But if you look at data of cost of healthcare for nations applying universal healthcare vs those who do not in developed nations, India might rationally look at it as an economic efficiency measure.
You are using a bait-and-switch debate tactic. Nothing that you said disproves that claim that "Universal healthcare is a 'populist' measure"
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not necessarily a counterpoint but Chile's dual system -private and public, both with copay for most- gives them a life expectancy of 81.79 years, surpassing a lot of more developed countries with free universal healthcare.
Brazil's is also dual, everyone gets covered by the public system, but there are plenty of private systems. And Chile is always a special case, the combination of natural resources, small population and good public systems does wonder for the country. Despite the extreme differences, I tend to compare Chile to the Nordic countries more than with LatAm. Not sure if that's scalable to larger countries, which is always…
> And Chile is always a special case, the combination of natural resources, small population and good public systems does wonder for the country. Despite the extreme differences, I tend to compare Chile to the Nordic countries more than with LatAm.
You are flat out wrong with this comparison. Chile has one of the lowest tax burdens in the world. It can be accurately compared to either Hong Kong or Singapore.
Average tax burden by country: https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/OECD_Tax_Wedge_C...
Scandinavian countries have 4x higher taxes than Chile. They are polar opposites.