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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Maybe we should start funding healthcare the same way the rest of the developed world does rather than in a manner emulated only by communist states.
Much of the rest of the first world may have a point with funding through a combination of single payer and private insurance.
As Hugh identified we spend about as much taxpayer money on healthcare as many of our peers but lack the private sector funding that compliments it elsewhere.
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We should look at the best solution in our peer economies and see if these are a better fit than our current model which doesn't deliver the necessary funding.
As for Hugh's point, this seem to show that there are a number of our EU neighbours that spend more public monies on healthcare:
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