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Most of the prices going up for young and healthy people is just the math insurance companies have to do when they can't deny people and have to provide more coverage.

The part where we don't have the free healthcare system is mostly due to politicians being afraid of socialism or being afraid of raising taxes or both and a very strong medical lobby that doesn't want the salaries of doctors (very high over here) to drop.