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Granted, the US healthcare system is in a sad and sorry state, but affordable
healthcare wasn't a casualty of big business.
Affordable healthcare was a casualty America's post-modern labor unions
and their shortsighted demands that employers start paying for employees'
medical expenses. And, except for the nonstop rise in healthcare costs,
it's been all downhill ever since.
Anyway, there are other facts to consider in this matter; facts that
Mr. Moore is either too stupid or too full of crap to acknowledge.
FACT: Countries like Canada, France, and the Netherlands provide
their citizens with free/practically-free healthcare.
FACT: Countries like Canada, France, and the Netherlands can afford
to provide their citizens with free/practically-free healthcare because
their governments are awash in tax dollars.
FACT: Countries like Canada, France, and the Netherlands aren't
burdened with the enormous responsibility of defending the free world (without a lot of help) and, therefore, do not have to maintain the requisite military force and weapon systems.
FACT: Maintaining the military force and weapon systems needed
to defend the free world is really, really, really, really, really, really
expensive.
FACT: Countries like Canada, France, and the Netherlands could
help defray some of the costs associated with defending the free world,
i.e., offer the defender of the free world a few bucks every now and then,
but, well, you know...
FACT: Maybe the defender of the free world could afford to provide
superduper, free healthcare for every single one of its citizens
if another free country, or union of free countries, would/could take the helm for a while without screwing everything up.
FACT: France and the Netherlands couldn't defend themselves against
the Nazis; and, Canada was spared such indignities because Hitler never
made it across the Atlantic (thanks to you-know-who).
FACT: In this regard, things haven't changed much since World
War II - except that now, Japan and Germany are part of the free world.
FACT: The peace, freedom and civility enjoyed in countries like
Canada, France, and the Netherlands exists, in large part, because the
defender of the free world has got their backs.
FACT: Enemies of the free world, with designs on world dominance,
are not deterred by free/practically-free government healthcare systems.
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