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With dozens of countries and literal mountains of data to support the proposition that UHC leads to better outcome, you can't just handwave all of it away with "you can't compare the two systems!"
And no matter how many times you say this, correlation does not magically become causation.
The Aussies have obesity rates comparable to our own,
No, they don't. Their obesity rates are roughly half of ours. Obese =/= overweight.
Overweight and obesity in Australia
and have a vastly lower population density which leads to higher infrastructure costs. The Canadians are basically our dorkier cousins. The French smoke like chimneys. The Irish will drink you under the table. Yes, they're all different, but thousands of sets of data just can't be dismissed like that. Our health problems aren't unique.
They're certainly not identical.