I've lived it. In the US. Dealing with the VA. (veteran's affairs)
It's disgusting, demoralizing, dehumanizing, denigrating. THAT is the system we'd end up with.
No. That's the system we'd start with. And then it would get worse.
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I live in Bulgaria (south eastern Europe). The health care system here isn't the greatest also. But if I break my leg (God forbid) I would get treated and I wouldn't have to pay thousands upon thousands of $ for it.