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Bill's very close-minded.
ing a system that charges half as much again more per head for medical care than the most extravagant of the other advanced industrial countries, and delivers 37th place on the international health care league table.
Harry Reid says you're a liar. And Pelosi says it's working wonderfully. You're actually saving $2,500, just like O promised.
Cheers, James Arthur
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Sure. I can't be persuaded that James Arthur's delusions have anything to d o with the real world.
rting a system that charges half as much again more per head for medical ca re than the most extravagant of the other advanced industrial countries, an d delivers 37th place on the international health care league table.
Numbers achieved by Tea Party nitwits equating apples with pears. Obamacare has very little effect on the actual costs of the system, except in that t he medical insurance company lobbying will have let them raise their margin s by a few percent. There is a problem for people who can't buy the inadequ ate cover they used to have, but that isn't - technically - raising the cos ts of the system but rather raising it's quality.
As if anything printed by the Daily Telegraph had any objective credibility . It's further to the right than you are (if that's possible), and remarkab ly enthusiastic about being rude about the British NHS - and it's been that way since 1948.
The 37th position in the league table s probably an exaggeration, but the U S does poorly on all the regular measures of general health - child and inf ant mortality, life expectancy and so forth - because the uninsured 15% pul l down the average. For the insured 85% the health care is about as good as you get in France, Germany and the Netherlands, but it's still half again more expensive per head. You can cherry-pick areas where US health care doe s better - cancer survival statistics come to mind, though Australia now le ads the US on breast cancer survival times - but that's because the US syst em systematically over-tests, in part due to fears of malpractice suits, an d in part because the US system over-treats to make more money for the medi cal professionals involved.
It looks good in the statistics, but it's bad for the patients, which is wh y more patient-oriented system don't do it.
The UK NHS is a lot cheaper per head than the French and German systems. It 's best described as Spartan.
ation would be our 3rd leading cause of death(!), a national scandal.
If it is actually happening in the UK (and the Daily Telegraph isn't an unb iased or reliable observer) it would be a national scandal there too. Since the report is all about unrecognised acute kidney infections which ha ve suddenly become less unrecognised than they used to be, it may well be h appening in the US too - the US health care system offers a wide price-qual ity range, and the low end is diabolical.
U.S. income tax. (That makes them "tax-evaders," doesn't it?).
Tax avoiders. That's perfectly legal. And they didn't start a war to evade taxes, which was a trifle irresponsible, though not as irresponsible as sad dling the US with a clumsy constitution designed to let the people who owne d the country keep on running the country behind a very thin facade of demo cracy.
For someone who finds strawmen boring, you do generate a lot of them.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
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