” People on the left often use other countries as examples of things that we should do.”
If Fidel isn’t dead already he would be if he hadn’t flown in doctors, no doubt in my mind.
It won't work when America socializes medicine. New drugs are developed only because America has companies that can make a profit developing them or foreign companies can make a profit selling them in America. Socialized medicine in America ends that. And government will not spend the money to do the research because most of it will go down the drain as most new drugs fail and the ones that succeed must lose money because the government prices will not make up the expense of the research for that drug much less pay for all the research for drugs that fail.
No new research means that as the effectiveness of antibiotics due to bacterial and viral mutation declines there will be no replacement by new antibiotics. The treatment of disease will regress toward the 1800s.
Machines will not be replaced as they wear out because they are very expensive and socialized medicine cannot justify the expense against other government expenses like Social Security and Defense and Farm Subsidies.
Socialized medicine in America is a LOSER for even the elite who think they are insulated. For them it will just take a little longer until they, tơo are dying from what we now think of as simple easily cured infections.
Odd how the MSM didn't make a big deal of this... wonder why?