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Lefty Mark's avatar

While every other "developed" country has a system for providing universal health care for all of its citizens, it is simply not true that they all utilize a <em>single-payer system.</em> Several European countries, such as Germany, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland for example, achieve universal coverage via an insurance mandate similar to Obamacare. This chart provides a convenient listing of the three broad types of funding for universal health care in the countries that have it. <a href="http://truecostblog.com/200..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://truecostblog.com/2009/08/09/countries-with...">http://truecostblog.com/200...

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SullivanSt's avatar

"I'm sorry the GOP is packed with spiteful morons".

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

only his head, the rest of his moldering corpse still owes

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Monsieur_Grumpe's avatar

Awwwwwwww.

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diogenez's avatar

Dear Tea Party,

I'm sorry that you are afflicted with anal itch, but stop taking your discomfort out on your fellow citizens.

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

here's your <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=ddOk6kUXioA" target="_blank">apology</a>

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Gherkins d'Resistance's avatar

"I'll apologize as soon as you guarantee it'll shut all of you motherfucking whiny bastards up about the ACA."

LOL Like the GOP keeps its word! Yeah, keep crysplaining how you need an apology, poor little Buttsoreblicans. That'll definitely make you whole again, won't it!

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fuflans's avatar

or, i don't know, don't FUCKING apologize.

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Joshua Norton's avatar

<i>the cost got jacked up by 15%-20%.</i>

Hey wingnuts, that's your precious "free market" at work.

Deal with it.

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Shypixel's avatar

I demand that Darrell Issa leak a deceptively edited transcript of the apology.

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Monsieur_Grumpe's avatar

I'm sorry you're an asshole. Happy now?

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Shypixel's avatar

So when they launch an investigation, do we call it an ANAL probe?

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Monsieur_Grumpe's avatar

Pope Innocent IV?

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diogenez's avatar

Someone needs to apologize for Typhoon Haiyan.

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