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Small countries "make it work" by shortchanging the older segment of their population (which is also the most in need of treatment) and then putting hidden taxes on certain groups who carry the rest.

I mentioned the situation with Germany and the widows paying monthly premiums of over 100 euros for their dead spouses. This is just one nation's method of "milking" a demographic and concealing what amounts to a special "widow's" tax. So imagine it - everyone who dies is still being paid for by their survivors this money then pays for all those who haven't paid into the system, as Raoul calls them "the paperless" folks who still receive certain treatment, as well as covering the systems constantly growing needs.

The bottomline is, it works for nations like Sweden which have both small populations and are sitting on huge beds of oil they can sell for revenue. It would work for Iran or Iraq if they nationalized the oil profits into subsidizing similar healthcare programs.

The US would have to create a whole new breed of taxes and fees to cover this expense and the final "universal system" would eventually be poisoned by bureaucrats who would create their own exceptions, rules and ways of exempting those in need - just like the bad insurance companies.

What would happen? For real? The quality of life would go down for 85 percent of the US, dramatically, as taxes for even the poor reach 50 of their income to pay for the "free" healthcare. The rich would be gouged at 75 percent or more and would carry many others. Basically, we would see a HUGE lower class emerge, similar to like that found in Mexico, non-working folk who at least can fall back on the "free" healthcare sytem which would keep them alive. You think the nation is polarized now? Just wait. The gold plated Maybachs will be cruising past the "universal healthcare" created cardboard houses all over the US.

The answer is competition. Competition and education to keep folks healthier without the need of batches of mixed chemicals daily pumped into their bodies.

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