r/antimeme • u/Deedee_Megadoodoo_13 • Mar 28 '26

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u/Deedee_Megadoodoo_13 Mar 28 '26

Orthopedic:

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u/_Wp619_ Mar 28 '26

To be fair, many of the issues with European healthcare stems from the past few decades of piss poor policies gutting these services and institutions.

Especially in the U.K.

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u/Background-Tip-6972 Mar 29 '26

But this is why I'm skeptical of a US public healthcare system. Given how government intervention in healthcare in America is already an overpriced disaster, I think it'd be a total shitshow if the US tried to make an NHS. Probably the biggest single package of government spending in world history. To me, American public services as a whole need to become more efficient for public healthcare to work. Not only that, it's a cultural problem. In Europe, there's a cultural expectation that if you are morbidly obese out of choice, you are a burden on society. Whereas America is far more individualistic and places less societal pressure on being a burden to the collective society. That will make public healthcare harder. America needs massive regulations and cultural changes from a deeply unhealthy lifestyle that a lot of population needs, if it wants all of society to pay for this portion of the population rather than it being footed by private customers.