How many people in Socialist countries get screwed over by their socialized medicine?
I don’t know, but my guess is no more than 20%. The other 80% are healthy enough to not need much care. But the 20% require a knee, hip, transplant, or even MRI to find out what’s wrong.
So, if you need votes, who do you help - the 20% that are EXPENSIVE basket cases (Canada simply does away with them now), or the 80% who show up maybe once a year, need pre-natal, have little kids with little medical issues?
That’s the problem - the 80% WINS, and the 20%, to quote Newt, is left to “Rot on the Vine”.
The 20% are where the differences in lifespan are going to show up, because these are almost all old people. And yet Europe beats the US. Btw, there is no great level of complaints about getting MRIs, etc in Spain or France, nor waiting times for doctors.
Ex, an 80 year old in Spain and France can expect to live another 10.11 or 10.61 years. The US is between 7 and 9 years, though that is based on old data.