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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
Any guesses on when universal healthcare will become a reality?
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I would guess we will see the first steps of this within the next 6 months. I doubt they will do it all at once. Instead they will probably put it in in phases. So phase 1 might be to make sure 100% of kids, elderly and sick people are covered. Then step 2 would be to make it available to anyone who wants it. Step 2 will include rules that will require businesses to still cover their employees.
So I think our universal health care will be less like that of countries where every person has the coverage and the government runs the system (IE France) and more a system where there is 100% coverage. the government provided coverage would only be available to people who are unemployed, sick, old, kids or cannot otherwise get coverage this way if you lose your job or something happens in your life where you have issues that are not covered the government coverage steps in and covers it.
So I say step 1 within about 6 months and step 2 getting started somewhere in the next 1 to 1 1/2 years depending on how well step 1 went.