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Originally Posted by sleepy jack
Socialism hasn't failed...Cuba has better health care than the United States, Sweden is at the forefront of innovation and Norway is doing way better than any capitalistic country right now. I don't really understand how people keep saying it's been proven to fail as a governmental structure when it really hasn't - it's thrived.
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Sweden and Norway are not socialist countries, Norway's constitution and system of government are modeled after the United States and they are a free-market economy just like us, the difference being their governments admits to owning and being owned by major industry giants. As for thriving, if you just mean health care then yes they have but people also pay nearly 60% of their income in taxes which would not be okay with very many Americans who are in favor of socialized health care.
If you do mean the system of government:
The most significant examples of failure in the last century are the USSR and China of course, but you can also look at places like Vietnam, North Korea, Laos and Cuba which health care aside, I can't agree that it is an example of a successful government.
This is in my opinion why so many people look at socialism as a failure and are probably scared away from, perhaps wrongly, the concept of socialized health care (or anything for that matter) as a whole.