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Originally Posted by stanley
You're using Ecuador as an example of great national health care? Is that what you are saying?
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I am saying even a very poor (broke) country like Ecuador manages to provide universal healthcare for its citizens. And they take it one step further, If you want to move there, you don't have to be a citizen, you don't have to have paid into the system all your life, you can join at the same rates would citizens get. (They also expats who are not citizens to vote - ahem...)
I could have compared the US to the other 17 first-world industrialized countries that ALL provide better healthcare at less than 1/2 the cost Americans pay. But, why bother.
Ecuador is an excellent example of what is possible.
Immigrants and expatriates from the United States to Ecuador are mostly retirees who take advantage of social services. It is estimated that about 5,000 to 10,000 American expatriates now live in the country.
Have you lived there? Or is your opinion based on news articles by the media?