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It was only enacted by Bismarck because they banned the whole SPD for a few years and didn't want their heads chopped off.

It was already a compromise at the time not only the reason of it's implementation, but also execution

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I was going to ask what universal actually means.

You're right that free GP appointments don't really exist anymore. However, anyone can roll up to emergency and be treated for free.

American here.

A significant percentage of us can barely read. Understanding even one form of UHC is asking too much from such simpletons.

And that socialised heatlhcare exists alongside private options. Countries with universal healthcare has more options and freedom of choice than countries with only privatised healthcare.

You could say the same thing about Australia really. 2% of your income unless you're very poor or very wealthy.

Isn't that the same thing by another name? I pay mandatory taxes to support national healthcare

There's 18 pixels of NZ, highlighted in red for having UHC

!mapswithoutnz@lemmy.nz is a better way to link, so that people can just click the link and be taken to the comm on their own instance.

But New Zealand was entirely made up by Peter Jackson for the LOTR series! They call themselves Kiwis for Pete's sake and you expect me to believe this island off the coast of Australia is real? Sounds no more real to me than the Island of Sodor, or the Isle of Man!

Yep.

We're ashamed to admit it's the same system Canada uses; just with more investment.

Edit: oh, and also Cuba! But Cuba is doing far better than expected given its poverty level, because Cubans are super-human.

This is kind of their thing WDYM? The flaw of Soviet-style autarky is that you can't uproot imperialism by cutting yourself off from it, not a failure to meet the basic needs of the people.

Expect the DPRK to become an industrial powerhouse now that China and Russia are warming up to them more. South Korea, eventually, will play a huge part in its development. Think Iran, but not menaced by Israel, holding nuclear weapons. Very intriguing situation. Most nations are still behind Iran in rocket technology. "You can just lock in and do things."

Whenever people say Americans don't have a tax payer funded universal healthcare, that's BS.

American taxes go to Israels universal healthcare.

they really enjoy it

Lol, we got American Politician Andrew Cuomo is busy running for Mayor of Tel Aviv

No, it is not Darwinism, for in his The Dsecent of Man from the 1870s Darwin extended natural selection to include emotions; it is the individuals who are to reproduce that transmit their genes to the next generation. And the process of dating does not proceed by rape. Then there is a debate concerning "group selection", and whether there is a selective mechanism at that level. Then it shifts a little back and forth, with inheritance of acquired characteristics (Lamarckism) making an occasional comeback until the modern synthesis between Darwin and Mendel in the 1930. But these days, horizontal gene transfer and several other mechanisms continue to blur the image a little. And Gould's old calculations that made directed evolution improbable have also been challenged in computer models, and where they have landed, I do not actually know, since it has been some years since I even thought about this subject. What you are talking about is probably Herbert Spencer, who by some weird coincidence (or perhaps it was intended?), is buried next to his ideological opposite, Karl Marx, in a London cemetery. It is from Spencer that many such things have emerged. His influence upon the robber barons and the shaping of the American right was considerable.

"Third world" refers to countries not aligning themselves with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact during the cold war, not WW2.

High middle and low income.