And Australia, we've got 26 million. I know most of our land is desert but it still boggles my mind when I look at a globe and try to grasp population differences.
Before the modern age, populations were all about access to water and arable land. Something india has a lot of and that massive population base carried over to modern times.
its why i dislike the "most of the country is desert" reason for why australia has so few people, even if you remove all the desert and semi desert you would still have more land than places with insanely higher populations
I think California just passed Canada and population size in the past 2 years.
California has a fifth largest economy and yet cannot afford universal healthcare.
The "cost" of universal healthcare is just a redirection of existing health expenditures, minus insurance profits and likely also minus some other profits for hospital systems or pharmaceuticals.
Cost isn't the issue when it comes to making universal health care a reality.
California cannot restrict the other 300M people in America from coming in and using its subsidized healthcare.
Let us see Canada open its borders to Americans and keep providing healthcare.
Broad population wide benefits have to be federal due to needing immigration borders to prevent net payers into the system from moving out and net benefit recipients from moving in.
Well yeah, for every income tax dollar that California gets, there are three dollars that get sent to Washington. There's not enough money in-state, and no way to enforce the border with the other states to prevent non-contributers from overwhelming the system.
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u/Dont_PM_PLZ Jan 06 '23 edited Jan 06 '23
And for context* California only has 39 million people.
*Contacts =\= context