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Health care coverage with a deductible and copays is not at all similar to taxpayer funded healthcare such as that in the UK.


That has nothing to do with my point, which is that Massachusetts has 98% coverage.

Neither the UK's monolithic NHS that combines single-payer insurance and (more or less) 100% free on delivery with no membership card, nor Canada's single-payer insurance with no legal private alternative, is the norm internationally. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Netherlands all have Obamacare-like systems with dozens of competing private insurance plans with premiums. 30% copay is the norm in France's three separate government insurance plans. Australia has single-payer insurance but people are heavily incentivized to move to private plans. Etc., etc.




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