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>Nor does rural areas having higher costs prove that European-style public healthcare won't scale to the US. No but now the burden of proof is to show how it d
by kongolongo 6y ago
>Nor does rural areas having higher costs prove that European-style public healthcare won't scale to the US.
No but now the burden of proof is to show how it does scale when the requirements and characteristics of the users are clearly very different. European population density is in general higher than US, and in general European countries are more homogeneous.
- gspr 6y agoThey're not "very different". And I gave numbers that show that Europe and the US are roughly equally urban. As for homogeneity, what kind of homogeneity are you thinking about? Europe is in general ridiculously far from homogeneous in most measures!
- kongolongo 6y agoHaving similar rates of urbanization does not address the fact that the population density is still significantly different. Even if the urban rates are exactly the same there may still be many more pockets of rural areas in the U.S. that also require access to healthcare, which incurs significant costs. You're completely not addressing this point at all.