“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.
In Canada, I have to pay about $6,000/yr for a healthcare system that I have no use for. It has cost me over $200,000 over my working life for a healthcare that will not be available for me in the end, because the money is gone. I would have to rob the children of their future, in the same manner that my future was taken from me for the benefit of those that are now 65 years and older.
Canada is not a good nation to try and argue for the merits of a public healthcare system, because I live here. If it’s beyond a broken leg, you get put on a waiting list and you pray for the death of those ahead of you so you can move up the list and get treatment before you end up dying on the list and allowing others to move up the list.
There is no merit to public healthcare, because it is immoral and it based on the idea that people exist as a resource source for the benefit of the liberal.