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A ticking time bomb: healthcare under threat across western Europe

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Re: A ticking time bomb: healthcare under threat across western Europe

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> In Germany, which spends more on healthcare than almost any other country in the world

Really?

This graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...

...seems to say what you expect: there is only one outlier and it's the US.

This graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...

...is even more damning. Maybe it's just the US who has a problem?

Re: A ticking time bomb: healthcare under threat across western Europe

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've seen those terms redefined so many times that now I think right-wing and left-wing don't mean anything really, outside the context of US politics.

I feel like left wing/right wing is basically now defined as “if you don’t believe in what I believe in then you’re right wing and wrong”

Defending social healthcare left wing - Promoting private healthcare right wing. In this case it's not that difficult.

Re: A ticking time bomb: healthcare under threat across western Europe

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Come to Italy, there's people from the hills sellings eggs from their cars. Btw, China has a space station all alone, only country in the world. How so?

See they have cars... everyone else knows that it's not a good investment?

I have a 16yo car and I'm a sw engineer with a decent salary, italian avg is 12yo, which is a lot. And I live in a comparatively rich northern region, southern Italy is much, much poorer. Less and less people can afford to buy a new car, let alone a BEV. We are back to 1970s cars selling numbers.

Re: A ticking time bomb: healthcare under threat across western Europe

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It's an organized dismantle coming from the right wing parties, they cut resources and spending creating waiting lists and the deviate people to private services. The promotion of private healthcare it's all over, super cheap prices for now, till the destroy the system and then I guess we will get a super expensive scamming healthcare like in the USA. In Spain several hospitals that turned private were returning to b…

Right wing parties haven't had much say in western Europe as of recent, unless you've re-defined right wing. We're having the same issues here in NZ and it accelerated with a left wing govt.

It's not a matter of left-wing or right-wing. It's a matter of whether the ruling party is neo-liberal. In the US, both parties are neo-liberal. In Canada, both parties are neo-liberal. There is only a small difference in how neo-liberal these parties are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

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