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Switzerland does have mandated universal health care, so essentially the same result as "Medicare for All". It's just implemented in a different form: mandatory basic insurance + supplemental insurance, instead of a single-payer system. A number of other European countries have something similar.


Yes, but that was what the ACA attempted, and there wasn’t just one simple model that America could have adopted to fix all its healthcare problems.


Agreed. The ACA was a compromise solution meant to move the US closer to a single-payer system, but was later stripped of many of its clauses, making it of much less value (though not rescinded altogether -- thank you, McCain!)




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