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You're both right: government-run healthcare works okay, except when it's the US government.

Canadian healthcare is horrible, pretty sure public healthcare in the UK is also very bad. It’s not a given that somehow switching to public healthcare will make the US like Finland, Canada is much more likely.

It's all about the execution - UK NHS public healthcare was once easily the envy of the world (I'm from Australia, not the UK) and then it suffered decades of being white anted by Conservatives.

> then it suffered decades of being white anted by Conservatives

On what planet does this not happen in America?

Of course it happens in the USofA, and more widely in the Americas.

The challenge for citizens is active participation in oversight of management of the commons - rats will sneak into every granary otherwise.

That’s where they got the idea.

Yes, when the government politicians hate public healthcare they can successfully sabotage it. That just means we need to structure it in a way that they can't. The examples given were all successful in their missions in the past before they were actively targeted.

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