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>It also takes an exceptional amount of knee jerk assery to interpret my comment as "change the US system to the Belgian one" Well you literally said "I'd sign
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
>It also takes an exceptional amount of knee jerk assery to interpret my comment as "change the US system to the Belgian one"
Well you literally said "I'd sign up for a significant increase in my taxes if the US system were replaced by the system that I experienced in Belgium for the first 30 years of my life" so why don't you tell me how that was supposed to be interpreted?
America shares a very long border with a nation with a functional healthcare system and we generally prefer to compare to them.
- tverbeure 5y agoI wrote "why not advocate for systems". Notice the plural form. Did you assume that by writing "all over the world", I actually meant the superpower of Belgium? What all those systems have in common is that they are a mix of free market and strong regulation. The opposite of "let's do even more free market than what we have now." I don't know how the US can get there. It's probably impossible, just like school shootings and the "No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" argument.