@phil777
So that's it, that's as far as your ability to debate goes?
This is what I mean about useful idiots, you present countries with a government run healthcare system and pretend that's 100% what socialism is with no strings attached, it's completely dishonest.
It's not even honest in itself because you're completely skimming over all the flaws of such a system in order to pretend it's free and nothing else. For example the doctors and other staff in the hospitals aren't working for free, it's not a charity organization or anything, you're still paying for it but you're doing it through increased taxes. You're even paying for the treatment of people who happily abuse the system, people like health tourists who visit the country to get expensive treatments done before going back, treatments that you're then paying for through taxes.
There is no ideal system without flaws, with Canada you're getting """"free"""" healthcare that comes out of your paycheck every month and which gets abused and worsened by a minority who don't give a shit, while Americans technically don't *have* to pay for health insurance but they get fucked financially if they don't and get injured or fall ill , while they get a decent level of healthcare if they do have said insurance and barely have to pay anything other than that (if anything at all).
For the record I'm English, we have a national health service too and it is starting to collapse under its own inefficiencies and the fact that all the immigrants (especially illegal ones) are abusing it for all it is worth to the point that it is quickly becoming unsustainable. Part and parcel of being in the EU, it means people from other EU countries who don't have free healthcare are coming over to get all the surgeries and treatment they want done and we are the ones who are left to pay for it, to say nothing of all the economic migrants who are coming over for all the freebies they can drain out of the country.