> if the USA tries to emulate Europe in healthcare more than we alreay do, we will end up wasting even more money. The evidence is that American health care co

> if the USA tries to emulate Europe in healthcare more than we alreay do, we will end up wasting even more money. The evidence is that American health care costs would go down significantly, given the clear correlation across industrialized countries between the extent to which health care spending is private and the overall cost (either per capita or as a share of GDP). > Contradiction. It's not a contradition, the latter follows necessarily from the former. It's why nearly every industrialized country has converged on public health, public education, public health care, affordable housing, and so on. > But providing a moral basis for individual rights requires understanding a complete philosophical system, which is out of the scope of an HN comment. Or we can dispense with the 18th century a priori legerdemain and just recognize human rights as a self-evident basis for a fair, just and humane society. > You're asking something that may be outside the scope of reality. And yet the rest of the industrialized world does a much better job of it than the United States. > As someone from a poor part of rural eastern North Carolina, all I can do is LOL at this The plural of anecdote is not data.