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If Europe,Japan,Canada etc have enough rich people to support some form of universal healthcare and college tuition help why can't the USA? Do you know Japan is a wealthy country with such great and well known companies but with fewer billionaires than tiny Switzerland? Where are their billionaires? In Japan the execs share their profit with employees. We don't need that but atleast the wealthy can pay their fair share of taxes so we don't have dilapidated infrastructure and terrible schools and poor healthcare. They don't even pay much taxes as the conman has shown.

Our healthcare rank is way below on the lines of costarica.
http://thepatientfactor.com/canadian-health-care-information/world-health-organizations-ranking-of-the-worlds-health-systems/

Billionaires by country: India is way higher because they are the perfect capitalists where the rich rule and poor suffer due to corruption of the rich. I would rather live in Japan than India.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_the_number_of_billionaires[/quote]

Every time someone talks about the "universal health care" systems provided by Europe, Japan, Canada, etc, they think it's 100% government provided healthcare that is as good or better than the quality of the private healthcare here in the US. This is simply not true. In Japan for example, there is a dual system of government provided insurance and private employer-provided insurance. A person can choose to obtain either one, or choose to go without health insurance. For the government provided insurance, patients may be responsible for up to 30% of care costs, determined based on income. Due to imbalance of supply and demand, access to healthcare services is a contentious issue, with some patients being rejected and refused service after multiple attempts to seek care. I'm not saying that on the whole Japan's medical care is worse, just that it is not the rosy vision of perfection that you seem to think it is. Every country's healthcare system has its own set of problems, the grass isn't necessary greener on the other side. [/quote]

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