Does Europe have Universal Health Care?

[boyntonstu]

France has it, so does Great Britain, and many other sovereign European countries.

Before Sunday, Mass had a state plan.

The European share a common currency the Euro.

We have the Dollar.

Why don't the European Nations have a United Universal Health Plan?

Why wasn't the Mass. plan allowed to continue?

 

[Darat]

France has it, so does Great Britain, and many other sovereign European countries.

Before Sunday, Mass had a state plan.

The European share a common currency the Euro.

We have the Dollar.

Why don't the European Nations have a United Universal Health Plan?

Why wasn't the Mass. plan allowed to continue?

The EU (which I assume you actually mean rather than "European") does not have a common currency, some of the countries have the Euro others don't. Plus throughout the EU (and a few other countries) there is something that is called "reciprocity" see http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/Healthcareabroad/EHIC/Pages/Introduction.aspx for details of how it works for a UK citizen.

 

[ddt]

France has it, so does Great Britain, and many other sovereign European countries.

Before Sunday, Mass had a state plan.

The European share a common currency the Euro.

We have the Dollar.

Why don't the European Nations have a United Universal Health Plan?

Why wasn't the Mass. plan allowed to continue?

What's your point?

To answer your questions about European countries: they're all sovereign states. They all have their own legislation on various social securities. All have UHC in one form or another. And they all have agreements that health care costs in another country are treated as if they were incurred at home.

What the Euro has to do with it escapes me. Please note that not all European countries use the Euro, e.g., the UK does not. The above holds for Euro- as well as non-Euro-countries.

 

[Rolfe]

Ahem....

Rolfe.

 

[Thunder]

France has it, so does Great Britain, and many other sovereign European countries.

Before Sunday, Mass had a state plan.

The European share a common currency the Euro.

We have the Dollar.

Why don't the European Nations have a United Universal Health Plan?

Why wasn't the Mass. plan allowed to continue?

why do folks derail their own OP?

 

[funk de fino]

Someones on a roll with the facepalm threads.

 

[Beerina]

France has it, so does Great Britain, and many other sovereign European countries.

Before Sunday, Mass had a state plan.

The European share a common currency the Euro.

We have the Dollar.

Why don't the European Nations have a United Universal Health Plan?

Why wasn't the Mass. plan allowed to continue?

The goal was to get the entire nation's population dependent on it, so they will be terrified of anybody who touches it, the way they are for Social Security and Medicare. That is the goal of it as strategic politics.

FDR said exactly that, which is (or was) posted on the wall as a famous quote in the National Archives, in the round room where you view the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

In the early '90s, Bill & Hillary, in National Medicine attempt #1, themselves said as much that they wanted to be akin to FDR, but with nationalized medicine.



Now, back to the "states experimenting", if you will. A cynic might suggest the whole thing isn't about figuring out the best "plan". If it were, they would be happy to have even more states experiment. But if we had a theory that a good plan wasn't the goal, but national dependency was the goal, then that has much more explanatory value as to why the states experimenting was thrown out.