• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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        3 months ago

        except that’s not the continent, that’s all within the EU, which is equivalent to the USA.

        The uncomfortable truth is that the US isn’t special, and you can’t use the size of it to justify things being shit.

        • canihasaccount@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          EU is still smaller

          But the main reason the US can’t handle the same stuff at a federal level that the EU can is population density. The US government can’t afford to nationalize rural healthcare given how rural the US can be–especially with their debt/GDP at the moment. Give it another few hundred years and the US might catch up to Europe in that respect.