Thomas Ragusa: Others succeed with national health care plans

Published: October 12, 2013 

Health plan success

We live in a democracy. We are not the most active democracy. Many European countries and Canada are more active democracies. The people of these countries vote at a much higher percentage than the people of the U.S. Each of these countries has a National Health Care Plan.

Is it not logical, if the people of these very active democracies thought their NHCP was not as practical nor as efficient as a non-NHCP, that they would have voted it out of existence? The facts are: Each and every country that has ever originated an NHCP has never repealed it. Each of these countries pays less per capita for health care than the U.S. The mean average age of the citizens of these countries is greater than that of the U.S.

Thomas Ragusa

Wake Forest

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