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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
Thank you. I accept your 1st paragraph as being correct and informative. I do not know all the details of that to be able to disagree. So it seems correct to me. You could have also have made the case that the US allows more immigration (both legal and illegal) than countries like Switzerland and many other European and Asian countries - so statistics get skewed. Like height, for example, the US average height and longevity has decreased recently due to immigration and even the US drug overdose problem.
As to the 2nd paragraph. It is true, but they come here to the US because we have the BEST health outcomes for the upper 1%. It is for the lower 90% that depend on insurance from employment, that the problem of lower health outcomes is in play. Because of not having Universal Health Care the AVERAGE US citizen is worse off "quality of life"-wise than say the average citizen of the UK, or Australia or pick most ANY 1st world country. WE, the US of A are the outlier of world countries. We are the only one dependant on Employer Insurance for health care. The insurance companies of America are the metaphorical VAMPIRE SQUID with its tentacles around the necks of the Average American - sucking the health-blood away!
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I disagree with this argument. We have the best health care because of competition, both academic and monetary and for prestige and then throw in a matter of pride and diligence and brilliance. We have attracted the finest physicians from around this world. I cannot tell you how many lived on my street in Cincinnati.
Our systems WORKS and the expertise is extended to many people who cannot afford it, either by the teaching hospitals or by the generous grants and funds and charities established by those who ARE monetarily successful.
If you do not like to use insurance. SAVE YOUR MONEY, but don't take mine. I have never taken a thing from anyone that I didn't work for. Plus the truly kind, the real givers, the kind souls who help are usually very silent about it.
I do not feel any true caring in many posts I read here, just more of the same old "one upmanship" and big mouths.