How do countries with socialized medicine seem to make it work?
I ask because I have a friend of German heritage who throws that at me all the time and I confess to be somewhat at a loss of facts and figures.
“How do countries with socialized medicine seem to make it work?”
Most don’t. Germany is an exception. The UK NHS is abysmal, populated by non-UK physicians from third-rate medical schools, many, many muslims. It’s a mess.
They don’t work. The Left always quotes life expectancy which is the primary outcome measure for organizations like the UN. Life expectancy is primarily determined by many factors other than the health care system (definition of viability at birth, car accidents, wars, violent crime, education, cultural factors, obesity etc.) When one measures survival rates for cancer and heart disease, the US is number one. The US also rates number one in terms of access (length of time to see primary or specialist), and in fact access for those on Medicare and Medicaid is much better than in the socialized countries.
Tell your friend that we will trade Detroit for Munich.