"Successful" as in "isn't yet done bankrupting the country"? Universal healthcare is communism, in one sector, and eventually leads to financial and moral ruin—when death panels decide who doesn't get further treatment, and policemen will stop you from seeking treatment abroad.
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Is the US system something to look towards? AFAIK, the cost per patient in the US is twice that of Denmark which has universal healthcare (as well as private operators).
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The US system is quite bad since the New Deal and WWII, that somehow tied healthcare to work-based insurance contracts, with an absurd amount of regulations, monopolies and bureaucracy. US doctors spend more time in bureaucracy than in patient care—and that's after hiring aides.
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Accountability. Definitely. Redistribution of wealth. Definitely, too.
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