Belgium has high-quality care that is accessible to all. Everybody contributes to social security proportionally to their working income (which in my opinion is

Belgium has high-quality care that is accessible to all. Everybody contributes to social security proportionally to their working income (which in my opinion is not fair since e.g. capital gains are untaxed). In return, everybody enjoys complete health care coverage (and other protections, such as unemployment benefits, maternity leave, ...). There is a copay for doctors visits (e.g. 6 EUR for your GP, 1.5 EUR for people with low income) and medical procedures, but there is also a maximum amount a person can be charged for health care in a year (459 EUR for low incomes). Bankruptcy due to medical bills is pretty much unheard off. According to [1], health spending accounted for 10.9% of GDP in Belgium in 2012, which is much lower than in the United States (which spent 16.9% of its GDP on health). Meanwhile infant and maternal mortality rates in Belgium are about half what they are in the US: 3.6 vs 6.1 per 1000 live births [2] and 7 vs 14 deaths per 100,000 live births [3], respectively. Anybody who argues that the free markets lead to better health outcomes than 'socialized' medicine, is ignoring the data. By the way, dental care is included in medical care. So we don't have third world country situations like [4] in the US. [1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2VeNWmBzMy0J:www.oecd.org/belgium/Briefing-Note-BELGIUM-2014.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=be http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2VeNWmB... [2] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.MMRT http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.MMRT [3] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr63/nvsr63_05.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr63/nvsr63_05.pdf [4] http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2017/05/13/the-painful-truth-about-teeth/?utm_term=.32cb1afec6e8 http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2017/05/13/the-pai...