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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Paying for health care for employees is a significant burden on US businesses. They shouldn't have to pay it (and European branches of US businesses do not). That's why Obamacare works for businesses. 
I lived in other countries and although sometimes you have to wait a while to be seen for a non-emergency, the health care was excellent and free. Why more Americans and American businesses don't lobby for single-payer is based on a mix of reasons: 
1. We've been told our system is the best in the world and we don't want to rock the boat. In a better world, we'd have something like the German system, a mixture of private and public. But generally, we don't look to Germany (for historic reasons), we look to the UK and France, and their systems are very different and not respected here. So--we're stuck .
2. People lobbied HARD to get medical bills exempt from bankruptcies but the credit card industry lobbied harder. We lost. We have to keep fighting. It's inexcusable that medical bills can cause someone to go bankrupt. 
3. Medicare for all. It will come--but only after we've explored every other option. And only when businesses lobby for it.[/quote]

Europeans get free healthcare. Are you proposing that? However companies and people pay more taxes. [/quote]

Europeans pay different taxes but not much more. Everyone says that they do, but when you compare what we pay in taxes, as well as health insurance premiums, we pay more.

My opinion, OP, is the reason so far has been inertia. And then the government stepped in to solve the problem of health care, but years later, we all can see that it didn't. Now Trump will fix health care ... somehow.

Maybe in another decade or two, we'll get creative and actually improve health care.  Possibly sooner. Possibly never.[/quote]

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