You’d have to prove to me that European healthcare is funded only through direct taxation. No GST’s or taxes on chocolate bars or cars or homes, no general revenue taxes that get redirected towards healthcare. I find that questionable, because liberals are never honest about anything.
Then you have the problem of no children to fund future expenditures. Europeans killed their children to make healthcare affordable for them, consequently having to import replacements for their children. Those replacements are destroying the European continent and are not planning on being participants in the socialst experiment, beyond being users of the system. They will vote to get the European to pay for it all, however.
My point is narrow. We arent talking about the viability of the welfare state.
In the US, in fact, medical costs make up a higher %, and per capita absolute ependiture, than in Euro countries. The US is worse off IN THIS PART of its own welfare state than Europe.
“You’d have to prove to me that European healthcare is funded only through direct taxation”
My reading ability in Spanish, French, Italian and German is not sufficient for that. Let’s try English and Canada:
This is what doctors get paid in Saskatchewan [Canada] for insured patients:
I’m sure the doctors in Saskatchewan, Canada like to know about any other funding.
I’m sure American doctors would not enjoy reading the schedule.