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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:11 PM
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Poll question: If you think about it, what is the best health care system in the world REALLY providing care for?
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:14 PM
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1. What is the best health care system in the world?
A hint...its not the US
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:15 PM
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2. Not even close
both on major health indicators AND an ever growing number of outcome measures.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:27 PM
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5. In 1996, Bob Dole said we had the "best health care in the world."
Edited on Mon Jun-15-09 12:28 PM by KansDem
Sure, Bob, if you've got a limousine to take you to Bethesda at the first sign of sniffles...
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One_Life_To_Give Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 02:13 PM
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10. Or a Past or Present member of Congress nt
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Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 02:16 PM
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11. Didn't he also say "tobacco is as safe as milk" around that same time?
Of course given all the growth hormones, antibiotics, and other shit in milk these days, he might have a point, whether he meant to or not.
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Old Hob Donating Member (296 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 01:27 PM
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8. I believe we do have the best healthcare in the world.
And, if you want it for free, you're gonna get what you pay for.
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 01:31 PM
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9. Well you can believe in one hand, and shit in the other. Check back with me tommorrow
No health care system is free. There are some funded progressively through taxation, which do not require copays, deductibles, deny claims, and provide service for everyone, no questions asked. And although its not free, those such systems can cost up to half as much per capita as what the US spends. You already pay more than enough for a system like this, but you just don't get it.
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Old Hob Donating Member (296 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 04:14 PM
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12. OK, show me your subjective evidence that supports your claim then.
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rrneck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:20 PM
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3. Where are we talking about? nt
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:22 PM
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4. norwegians.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:50 PM
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6. Which system is that? The one in France?
Well, we know that the mediocre health care system in the U.S. serves the ends of money, not people. But I suspect that the best in the world, and many of the others better than that of the U.S., primarily serve the needs of people.
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One_Life_To_Give Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 01:17 PM
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7. Congresspersons
Not that we mere mortals have any chance of getting that, although I guess we can dream.
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