Reply #9: I wouldn't call a country with 4 different languages "homogenous".

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As for your attempt to be an apologist for the failings of the US to provide basic human rights to its citizens, I think you've fallen flat. Why can't the US do things differently? Because it is different from other countries? Sure, we're 5 times the population of Britain, but that doesn't mean that we can't have universal healthcare. There are certainly counties 1/5 the size of Britain that do it, so it seems logical that it can scale up easily enough.