The main reason it isn't financially practical for the U.S. is the student debt load that Doctors have to carry of an average of $200,000 per new doctor. Unless you are going to give doctors free educations like they do in Europe and start there and then extend it down to nurses too and reduce doctors and nurses salaries down to European levels by giving them free educations, you simply CANNOT afford to have a health care system like European ones unless doctors and nurses get free educations here to begin with.
Because our system is just so engrained the way it is Medicare for all would be trillions of dollars which makes it ridiculous to contemplate to begin with.
I know a little bit about all this because my son got a nursing degree at one of the CSUs here in California. We made a deal with him that if he actually got his nursing degree that we would pay back his student loans for him. They were only about $40,000 the way he did it and so for us this was relatively easy to pay back these loans. So, my son was basically able to get a nursing degree for free (except for part time jobs while getting his degree).
But, like I said, unless you give doctors and nurses free educations like they do in Europe it is completely BULLSHIT to think you can have a system like they do there here. It would be about 100 times more expensive here than Europe as long as the Doctors and nurses have student loans of 200,000 dollars to pay off!
Even Obama and his wife Michelle in order to both become lawyers were still paying off student loans into their late 40s from becoming lawyers.
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