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As far as I'm aware, there are no health care systems in the world that are not in serious distress right now. The truth is, no matter what budget you could place for health care, it could easily balloon into infinity, and honestly, this could be for an ever smaller percentage of the population. (given the ever more exotic equipment, drugs and procedures available) In Canada, we have had universal health care for probably 40years.....but don't think it's free, I pay probably double in income taxes an average American pays for the equivalent income. I think it's apparent that a considerable segment of our population takes limited responsibility for their personal health, pay little or no taxes to sustain the system, and uses this heavily stressed system way too frequently. Every time some form of usage fee is discussed, (to discourage people from seeing Doctors for various "Bobos" or common colds, etc...) the howls calling "unfairness"starts up. I do see the writing on the wall, when no real effort is made to rationalize the system, and (as a percentage of GDP) the budget is increased yearly. Yep, utopia it isn't, but if a rational discussion can finally be engaged, the system can move toward a much more sustainable model.Cheers
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