| NightDragon83 said: @akuma587... you know what's really funny about that list? People in America are always hearing from the left, especially people like Michael Moore, about how amazing the heath care system in Canada is... but according to your list, they're only 7 spots above the evil healthcare nightmare that is the USA.... hell they barely managed to crack the top 30! Hell, even Israel, a nation under constant rocket attacks and suicide bomber watches, has better health care than our friendly neighbors to the north! And France and Italy's economies are just humming along now aren't they? Italy is in worse shape than we are, and that's saying something. |
No country is perfect, but out of the top 25 industrialized nations, we are the ONLY one who doesn't have socialized medicine. We are the exception, not the norm.
We actually spend a higher percentage of our GDP on healthcare than does Great Britain and France, yet we have worse healthcare, which is a testament to how much leverage insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies have.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92136549#share
No doubt you've heard that the United States is the only developed nation without a universal health care system that provides care for all.
The result is that 47 million people in the United States lack health coverage. It's one reason the U.S. ranks 29th in the world in terms of life expectancy and at or near the bottom of most international health care comparisons.
What you might not know is that many of the universal health care systems in Europe provide high-quality health care to all residents, at a much lower cost than what people in the United States spend on health care.
There is also an interactive graph which lets you compare six different countries on a lot of factors regarding their healthcare:
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/healthcare/healthcare_profiles.html
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