What do they have in common?

Started by CrysG, May 20, 2009, 11:59:43 PM

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Doctor_K

#30
May 21, 2009, 12:56:05 PM
Seriously?  You missed the point entirely.
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FayeforCure

#31
May 21, 2009, 08:46:47 PM
Quote from: JeffreyS on May 21, 2009, 12:07:40 PM
I love the idea of a medicare + Supplemental insurance model.  Before plan B of 06 and prescription cards of 06 the government proved it could provide quality health care. Granted after that medicare has been much less effective.  
I think we should do it but I do not know if we can afford it( in fact I am very skeptical).  I also worry that even if we put a good system in place some president will get his mad on for some nonwhite country and raid the funds of the Government health care system to prosecute his or her little war.
I support giving it a try and yet it scares me.  
On a personal note the business I own provides health care ( we have reduced our contribution in the last year) my two chief competitors do not so I may profit from a national system.

JeffreyS, thanks for your comment.

You seem well-informed.
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urbanlibertarian

#32
May 21, 2009, 10:01:57 PM
How do the unemployment rate and economic growth rate in the countries listed in the original post compare with ours?
Also life expectancies are a bit lower here because we travel by automobile so much more than people in other developed countries.  When auto accidents are factored out our life expectancy is the same or higher.
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CrysG

#33
May 21, 2009, 11:46:52 PM
Quote from: urbanlibertarian on May 21, 2009, 10:01:57 PM
How do the unemployment rate and economic growth rate in the countries listed in the original post compare with ours?
Also life expectancies are a bit lower here because we travel by automobile so much more than people in other developed countries.  When auto accidents are factored out our life expectancy is the same or higher.


Oh yes the reason American's live shorter lives is due to our cars......The reason we live shorter lives has nothing to do with.....

QuoteAdults in the United States have one of the highest obesity rates in the world. Nearly a third of U.S. adults 20 years and older are obese, while about two-thirds are overweight, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.

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QuoteA relatively high percentage of babies born in the U.S. die before their first birthday, compared with other industrialized nations. Forty countries, including Cuba, Taiwan and most of Europe had lower infant mortality rates than the U.S. in 2004. The U.S. rate was 6.8 deaths for every 1,000 live births. It was 13.7 for Black Americans, the same as Saudi Arabia.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-08-11-life-expectancy_N.htm
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