akuma587 said:
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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It wouldn't have anything to do with the notorious obesity of the U.S., would it? If we lost a little bit o' weight, might that decrease the costs significantly.
Also, how is a system which is run by several large corporations accountable to few worse than a system run by one gigantic "corporation" accountable to no one? The consequences of corruption there seem to be a lot higher.
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