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Chris I know you have been told before and it's probably been mentioned here.
I f you want that Swiss healthcare move there no one is stopping you.
Yes - god forbid that the US should lower itself to learning from successful models elsewhere.
I don't actually think Switzerland is the best model for the US myself, but the day a country stops looking to what works in other countries is the day it starts to die.
Every speech that our President makes includes a phrase 'raise the taxes on those making over $250,000.' So we can't learn from the Swiss on this item.Swiss immigration rules are tough and demanding. No birthright citizenship, no ius solis preference over ius sanguinis, 12 years of legal residence to become a citizen, etc
And, our President and the same group of retards would not object to a VAT and a National Sales Tax, but they would NEVER agree to lowering the tax rate to 22% on the upper 10%.we are talking about a country that recently voted against a tax hike for the rich: 59% voted against a top federal income tax rate of 22% for those earning more than 250,000 francs/year:
Ironically, according to the OECD (not a libertarian right-wing organization), Switzerland enjoys a better distribution of wealth than USA and the rest of Europe.
Not so surprising there - the only countries which compete with the US on consoldiating wealth into the hands of the few are Brazil, Mexico and China.
The US is, it seems, the only western democracy on the planet which no longer expects the American Dream to be possible for the majority of people.
Switzerland enjoys a better distribution of wealth than USA and the rest of Europe.
The Swiss also legalized drugs.
The Swiss are very smart.
Ironically, according to the OECD (not a libertarian right-wing organization), Switzerland enjoys a better distribution of wealth than USA and the rest of Europe.
Not so surprising there - the only countries which compete with the US on consoldiating wealth into the hands of the few are Brazil, Mexico and China.
The US is, it seems, the only western democracy on the planet which no longer expects the American Dream to be possible for the majority of people.
Switzerland enjoys a better distribution of wealth than USA and the rest of Europe.
I had no idea that Brazil, Mexico and China were in Europe. Live and learn!
Do the Swiss have the same problem with tens of MILLIONS of Illegal immigrants draining their resources? I don't think so.
Do the Swiss have the same problem with tens of MILLIONS of Illegal immigrants draining their resources? I don't think so.
No, but England, France, Holland and Germany do - and they also have a better, cheaper healthcare system than the US.
Do the Swiss have the same problem with tens of MILLIONS of Illegal immigrants draining their resources? I don't think so.
No, but England, France, Holland and Germany do - and they also have a better, cheaper healthcare system than the US.
Samson -
Evidence is not hard to find on this:
Healthcare costs per capita:
Holland: $4,914.
France. $3,978
Germany: $4,218
UK: $3,487
USA: $7,960
List of countries by total health expenditure (PPP) per capita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most Americans don't give a flying damn what you EU creeps are doing. WE aren't the EU and never will be. WE will never be like you no matter how hard our 'leaders' are trying to make it so. WE in particuliar value our liberty..weras you creeps have given up your liberty.
No, you won't - and you shouldn't try to be the EU.
What you should try to do is to look at all other countries in the world to see what you can learn from them.
I live in a country with a better education and healthcare system than you have - according to numerous research studies. You could either check that out to see if there is anything to be learned from it - or you could ignore the fact that it is better. Just as we have learned so much from the US during the past 50 years.
I don't care either way.
Hows this go take a fling fuck, does that work for you?
No, you won't - and you shouldn't try to be the EU.
What you should try to do is to look at all other countries in the world to see what you can learn from them.
I live in a country with a better education and healthcare system than you have - according to numerous research studies. You could either check that out to see if there is anything to be learned from it - or you could ignore the fact that it is better. Just as we have learned so much from the US during the past 50 years.
I don't care either way.
Hows this go take a fling fuck, does that work for you?
You conservatives are just so damn...............learned! If you ever make it out of high school you will be just AWESOME!!!!
The centerpiece of the case against Obamacare is the requirement that everyone buy some kind of health insurance or face stiff penalties--the so-called individual mandate. It is a way of moving toward universal coverage without a government-run or single-payer system. It might surprise Americans to learn that another advanced industrial country, one with a totally private health care system, made precisely the same choice nearly 20 years ago: Switzerland. The lessons from Switzerland and other countries can't resolve the constitutional issues, but they suggest the inevitability of some version of Obamacare.
Switzerland is not your typical European welfare-state society. It is extremely business-friendly and has always gone its own way, shunning the euro and charting its own course on health care. The country ranks higher than the U.S. on the Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom.
Twenty years ago, Switzerland had a system very similar to America's--private insurers, private providers--with very similar problems. People didn't buy insurance but ended up in emergency rooms, insurers screened out people with pre-existing conditions, and costs were rising fast. The country came to the conclusion that to make health care work, everyone had to buy insurance. So the Swiss passed an individual mandate and reformed their system along lines very similar to Obamacare. The reform law passed by referendum, narrowly. The result two decades later: quality of care remains very high, everyone has access, and costs have moderated. Switzerland spends 11% of its GDP on health care, compared with 17% in the U.S. Its 8 million people have health care that is not tied to their employers, they can choose among many plans, and they can switch plans every year. Overall satisfaction with the system is high.
TIME: Fareed Zakaria
The centerpiece of the case against Obamacare is the requirement that everyone buy some kind of health insurance or face stiff penalties--the so-called individual mandate. It is a way of moving toward universal coverage without a government-run or single-payer system. It might surprise Americans to learn that another advanced industrial country, one with a totally private health care system, made precisely the same choice nearly 20 years ago: Switzerland. The lessons from Switzerland and other countries can't resolve the constitutional issues, but they suggest the inevitability of some version of Obamacare.
Switzerland is not your typical European welfare-state society. It is extremely business-friendly and has always gone its own way, shunning the euro and charting its own course on health care. The country ranks higher than the U.S. on the Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom.
Twenty years ago, Switzerland had a system very similar to America's--private insurers, private providers--with very similar problems. People didn't buy insurance but ended up in emergency rooms, insurers screened out people with pre-existing conditions, and costs were rising fast. The country came to the conclusion that to make health care work, everyone had to buy insurance. So the Swiss passed an individual mandate and reformed their system along lines very similar to Obamacare. The reform law passed by referendum, narrowly. The result two decades later: quality of care remains very high, everyone has access, and costs have moderated. Switzerland spends 11% of its GDP on health care, compared with 17% in the U.S. Its 8 million people have health care that is not tied to their employers, they can choose among many plans, and they can switch plans every year. Overall satisfaction with the system is high.
TIME: Fareed Zakaria
Notice how Libs never compare the US favorably to any other countries?
That's subversive behavior
Do the Swiss have the same problem with tens of MILLIONS of Illegal immigrants draining their resources? I don't think so.
No, but England, France, Holland and Germany do - and they also have a better, cheaper healthcare system than the US.
Chris I know you have been told before and it's probably been mentioned here.
I f you want that Swiss healthcare move there no one is stopping you.
Yes - god forbid that the US should lower itself to learning from successful models elsewhere.
I don't actually think Switzerland is the best model for the US myself, but the day a country stops looking to what works in other countries is the day it starts to die.
We have a President and a loud liberal minority that believe in open borders. This, from a previous post could never happen.
Every speech that our President makes includes a phrase 'raise the taxes on those making over $250,000.' So we can't learn from the Swiss on this item.Swiss immigration rules are tough and demanding. No birthright citizenship, no ius solis preference over ius sanguinis, 12 years of legal residence to become a citizen, etc
And, our President and the same group of retards would not object to a VAT and a National Sales Tax, but they would NEVER agree to lowering the tax rate to 22% on the upper 10%.we are talking about a country that recently voted against a tax hike for the rich: 59% voted against a top federal income tax rate of 22% for those earning more than 250,000 francs/year:
Do the Swiss have the same problem with tens of MILLIONS of Illegal immigrants draining their resources? I don't think so.
No, but England, France, Holland and Germany do - and they also have a better, cheaper healthcare system than the US.
Every advanced, and some not so advanced, countries have better and cheaper healthcare than the US
