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Old 01-31-2011, 10:09 PM
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Originally Posted by RichieLion View Post
To say Canada's and the U.K.'s health care system is better than our free market system which has revolutionized treatments and medicines for the whole world is preposterous. You would dumb down our medical world as the schools have dumbed down education by bringing us all down to equal; instead of striving to bring those who are down to a higher level.
Do not confuse the heath care system (which is what delivers health care) with the research and development system.

Sure, we have that new $97,000 prostate cancer treatment. What good is it if you can't afford it or your insurance plan doesn't cover it?

As far as R&D is concerned, THERE I can agree with you. One of my pet peeves is that WE, in this country, seem to pay for the R&D that the rest of the world then gets "at cost" (or closer to it).

But you cannot name me ONE SINGLE metric where our actual health-care DELIVERY system is 'the best' or close to it. Even earlier the comment about people coming to this country for health care is now debunked when I found research that showed that ten times number of people travel OUT of the US for health care than the number of foreigners who travel here for health care.

I'm not being sarcastic. PLEASE - give me one good, objective metric. Everywhere I turn, I find the same answer - we're deluding ourselves with patriotic jingoism so long as whatever insurance plan we have doesn't kick us off.

Life expectancy, rates of certain diseases, birth mortality and, most of all, per capita spending. Every time I look up another statistic it shows how far we've fallen.

You think I *LIKE* finding this out?