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Obamacare is basically based on the Swiss system, so not every other developed country has Medicare for all (even the German system is “it’s complicated”). The main difference between the Swiss system and Obamacare though is the Swiss outlaw health insurance being provided as a benefit at work (so basically no group plans, almost everyone is in the same risk pools). Foreigners living in Switzerland need to document their purchase of Swiss health insurance.




Switzerland does have mandated universal health care, so essentially the same result as "Medicare for All". It's just implemented in a different form: mandatory basic insurance + supplemental insurance, instead of a single-payer system. A number of other European countries have something similar.

Yes, but that was what the ACA attempted, and there wasn’t just one simple model that America could have adopted to fix all its healthcare problems.

Agreed. The ACA was a compromise solution meant to move the US closer to a single-payer system, but was later stripped of many of its clauses, making it of much less value (though not rescinded altogether -- thank you, McCain!)

much of Europe force a fixes price table too. Different Insurance companies and private individuals pay the same amount for the same things. That create a even playing field where market forces actually help rather than hurt the outcome.



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