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This is the crux of the debate. I tend to believe that if private insurance is allowed to stand, the healthcare system would eventually come to mirror the education system with heavily bifurcated quality streams. Imagine how much better the public school system would be if private/charter schools were outlawed. Capital would be constrained within the system instead of following the rich through the escape hatch of private schools/healthcare.

The healthcare systems of the UK, Canada, Scandinavia, and other Western European nations benefit from being formed in a time when public spending wasn't constantly under attack, and in countries with far more egalitarian leanings than modern America. Even now though, the NHS is under constant attack from the Tories :francis:
The American public school system's problems has more to do with funding being based on the local tax base.
 

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The American public school system's problems has more to do with funding being based on the local tax base.
Yeah school funding being linked to property taxes is a major contributor to the problem, and I would argue decoupling those two factors is a necessary step, but as long as the wealthy are still given the option of opting out of the system, I see no reason it wouldn't eventually degrade on some Elysium shyt.
 

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She washed Bernie.
Not really.
and would have been a better POTUS than Trump.
.......................................................... Not really.
The American people fukked up.
Not at all. Most of them voted for the bytch. Bill was trying to remind her to focus on those idiots in Pennsylvania and the Midwest and she was too busy dancing with Ellen.
 
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