| HappySqurriel said: The healthcare systems of (pretty much) every country in the world are castles built on sand ... As long as healthcare costs continue to outpace GDP growth every healthcare system is doomed to fail and the only question is when. An excercise I would like to see people do before they proclaim that another country's healthcare model is somehow magically better is to gather obesity statistics from a couple of different sources (there are large differences between the sources) and to create a chart with the per-capita cost of healthcare and the rate of obesity by country. I don't want to spoil the surprise for you, but the per capita cost of healthcare is directly correlated to the rate of obesity; and a country like France (with it's 9% to 11% obesity rate) has a massive advantage in healthcare costs when compared to a country like the United States (with its 30% to 40% obesity rate). The problem all western countries face is that the obesity rate continues to grow and no one knows how to stop this. |
I-is the answer "make less food"?
