Canada

I’m going to say again if the liberals drop the ball on providing a single payer pharmacare in Canada they’re going to hand the election to conservatives

The Liberals do not want to expand the state. People need to understand this: they're small-L neoliberals to their craven, money-grubbing core that differ from the Conservatives in that they don't care who you fuck. They like taxes low, regulations light and the public->private money faucet turned up real high.

Once you understand this, most Liberal (and Conservative) policy makes sense: they want to stay in office, and what services they're forced to provide have to be "market-based" and involve some way for your taxes to fund some rich dude. This is why "pharmacare" won't be national and single-payer, it'll be "market based" and involve some way for existing insurers to make a buck.