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groundloop

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6. While still repeating the lie that we have the best healthcare in the world

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #4)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 09:55 AM

Jul 18

The most expensive most certainly does not equate to "the best". It might be the best if you're ultra rich and can afford exorbitant prices for every medication and procedure you need, but for the rest of us the high price of healthcare is a severely limiting factor.

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