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>Somehow European countries pull it off without bankrupting themselves.

While providing universal health care to a similar number of folks and with a smaller aggregate economy.

Those Europeans must be cooking the books, eh? /s

US GDP[0]: $25,462,700 million

Aggregate EU GDP[1]: 15.8 trillion euros

N.B.: USD/Euro Exchange rate (23 July 2023)[2]: 0.89 Euro == 1 US Dollar.

[0[ https://countryeconomy.com/gdp/usa?year=2022

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/279447/gross-domestic-pr...

[2] https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=...



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