• minty@aussie.zone
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    17 hours ago

    The reason why australia and the UK’s public health has gone too shit is due to decades long chronic underfunding. Universal Health Care and long wait times don’t have to go together

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      16 hours ago

      Of course, but if more socialist countries struggle to justify increasing the funding of the already massive cost of healthcare, I doubt that the states would manage a well funded one. In fact it may even be sabotaged. But theoretically if it had good funding then yes most of those problems go away.

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        16 hours ago

        They aren’t socialist and the govs that oversaw the decline were conservatives.

        But yeah, I agree it would be one hell of a logistical and political undertaking. I suspect they could try state by state. That might make it more politically managable at least.

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          16 hours ago

          It’s been joked that Australia is half socialist, and I kind of agree with it. Never been to the UK so I can’t say much about that.