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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I had a friend in Austria who had to wait three months to begin Breast cancer treatment.
I have traveled overseas. I have a daughter who lives now in London. I think the rankings are based on socialistic criteria rather than quality..
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Socialistic criteria IS quality - quality of life - a much better yardstick of life worth living than CEO pay or GNP. The goal of a country (any country) should NOT be economic growth or population growth or pollution growth, but, rather people's quality of life growth. Like height, happiness, air quality, average education, health care opportunities, social upward mobility (incidentally the US is currently about 30th behind Estonia).
To put it simply, the "greed is good" mantra of most of our generation has left many of us shallow and purposeless. Societal improvement was the goal for a small % of our generation and they were the pioneers for any possible US future improvement. After the recent US failure to lead and the CV breakdown, the world is looking to more progressive and less greedy countries for leadership. We are in a tailspin!