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Originally Posted by HarryT
The overwhelming majority of western nations have government-funded healthcare systems that the individual does not have to pay for personally (other than through their taxes, of course), so clearly it can be done if there is the will to do it. The USA is very, very much the exception in this regard. In most western nations, providing a good healthcare system is regarded as just as much a fundamental "duty" of government as, say, providing a good educational system is.
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providing one slightly overlooks the dentistry and optical professions that mostly rely on self-funding for treatment - excepting emergency and those on benefits....though eye sight tests are free in Scotland. Prescription charges still feature as a tax upon those who are ill (except in Wales and decreasing annually in Scotland (not too sure about N. Ireland)).