@33mhz Ireland, bizarrely in a European context, has a mixed socialist/privatised system. The result is that we have the highest per cap spending on the health system in the OECD, and one of the worst result rates. We have US health companies bleeding the system dry, with concomitant reductions in available spending for the remaining public system. Regarding socialised systems, look at the UK's NHS (quick before the Tories abolish it), which serves c.65m people with some of the best healthcare in the worl

@33mhz
Ireland, bizarrely in a European context, has a mixed socialist/privatised system. The result is that we have the highest per cap spending on the health system in the OECD, and one of the worst result rates. We have US health companies bleeding the system dry, with concomitant reductions in available spending for the remaining public system.

Regarding socialised systems, look at the UK's NHS (quick before the Tories abolish it), which serves c.65m people with some of the best healthcare in the world.

When it health, I guess the US is in he same boat it is on guns: What can be done, asks only country in the world where this happens.
// @tomas

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