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Roughly a third of our healthcare spending is socialized medicine, and Medicare and Medicaid have the same issues we do.


1/3 < 3/3.

We do not have anything close to socialized medicine.


I don't understand what you mean, not being universal does not have any bearing on that. The care is paid out of taxes.


I am on Medicare. Because it is not universal means it is only partly socialized and still operating inside of a non-socialized system. Why does this matter? I cannot get any doctor I want, only the ones taking Medicare, which are fewer and fewer, because they would rather only take people on private insurance.

In France for example you can walk into any doctor and they will see you.




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