| johnsobas said: America has the best health care in the world if you can afford it, if you are not denied it even though you paid for it, and if you are eligible for it. Of course people like to bash Canada's system, but average Canadian is healthier than the average American. I mean, people in Cuba have a longer life expectancy than people in the US. The problem isn't that it is bad health care, it is that it is too expensive and there are too many loop holes to screw people over. The average person is better off in many other countries in the world, the rich are certainly better off in the US though. |
One thing people never seem to account for when comparing healthcare systems is how healthy the average individual is. While the overall difference in obesity in the United States and Canada may not be dramatically different, obesity is still a significantly larger problem in the United States; and (in particular) the percentage of the population that is morbidly obese (from the last statistics I heard, which was a couple of years ago) was nearly double in the United States what it is in Canada, and morbid obesity was increasing at a more rapid rate in the United States than Canada.
When you have 3% more of your population shortening their lifespan by 20 years it will have a noticeable impact on statistics
