Hey Republicans...

Explain this:

Rank Country

1 France
2 Italy
3 San Marino
4 Andorra
5 Malta
6 Singapore
7 Spain
8 Oman
9 Austria
10 Japan
11 Norway
12 Portugal
13 Monaco
14 Greece
15 Iceland
16 Luxembourg
17 Netherlands
18 United Kingdom
19 Ireland
20 Switzerland
21 Belgium
22 Colombia
23 Sweden
24 Cyprus
25 Germany
26 Saudi Arabia
27 United Arab Emirates
28 Israel
29 Morocco
30 Canada
31 Finland
32 Australia
33 Chile
34 Denmark
35 Dominica
36 Costa Rica
37 United States of America
38 Slovenia
39 Cuba
40 Brunei
41 New Zealand
42 Bahrain
43 Croatia
44 Qatar
45 Kuwait
46 Barbados
47 Thailand
48 Czech Republic
49 Malaysia
50 Poland
51 Dominican Republic
52 Tunisia
53 Jamaica
54 Venezuela
55 Albania
56 Seychelles
57 Paraguay
58 South Korea
59 Senegal
60 Philippines
61 Mexico
62 Slovakia
63 Egypt
64 Kazakhstan
65 Uruguay
66 Hungary
67 Trinidad and Tobago
68 Saint Lucia
69 Belize
70 Turkey
71 Nicaragua
72 Belarus
73 Lithuania
74 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
75 Argentina
76 Sri Lanka
77 Estonia
78 Guatemala
79 Ukraine
80 Solomon Islands
81 Algeria
82 Palau
83 Jordan
84 Mauritius
85 Grenada
86 Antigua and Barbuda
87 Libya
88 Bangladesh
89 Macedonia
90 Bosnia-Herzegovina
91 Lebanon
92 Indonesia
93 Iran
94 Bahamas
95 Panama
96 Fiji
97 Benin
98 Nauru
99 Romania
100 Saint Kitts and Nevis
101 Moldova
102 Bulgaria
103 Iraq
104 Armenia
105 Latvia
106 Yugoslavia
107 Cook Islands
108 Syria
109 Azerbaijan
110 Suriname
111 Ecuador
112 India
113 Cape Verde
114 Georgia
115 El Salvador
116 Tonga
117 Uzbekistan
118 Comoros
119 Samoa
120 Yemen
121 Niue
122 Pakistan
123 Micronesia
124 Bhutan
125 Brazil
126 Bolivia
127 Vanuatu
128 Guyana
129 Peru
130 Russia
131 Honduras
132 Burkina Faso
133 Sao Tome and Principe
134 Sudan
135 Ghana
136 Tuvalu
137 Ivory Coast
138 Haiti
139 Gabon
140 Kenya
141 Marshall Islands
142 Kiribati
143 Burundi
144 China
145 Mongolia
146 Gambia
147 Maldives
148 Papua New Guinea
149 Uganda
150 Nepal
151 Kyrgystan
152 Togo
153 Turkmenistan
154 Tajikistan
155 Zimbabwe
156 Tanzania
157 Djibouti
158 Eritrea
159 Madagascar
160 Vietnam
161 Guinea
162 Mauritania
163 Mali
164 Cameroon
165 Laos
166 Congo
167 North Korea
168 Namibia
169 Botswana
170 Niger
171 Equatorial Guinea
172 Rwanda
173 Afghanistan
174 Cambodia
175 South Africa
176 Guinea-Bissau
177 Swaziland
178 Chad
179 Somalia
180 Ethiopia
181 Angola
182 Zambia
183 Lesotho
184 Mozambique
185 Malawi
186 Liberia
187 Nigeria
188 Democratic Republic of the Congo
189 Central African Republic
190 Myanmar

Best healthcare in the world my ass.

Morons.

If the boycott of Cuba is so successful, why are we only 2 slots better than they are?

Idiots.

Woohoo, we're better than Slovenia!

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How's them Freedom Fries? France #1! :rofl:

Ignorant ass holes.

Costa Rica, a third world country has better healthcare than we do.

How stupid can Republicans be?








Never mind.



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:think:

he World Health Organization has carried out the first ever analysis of the world’s health systems. Using five performance indicators to measure health systems in 191 member states, it finds that France provides the best overall health care followed among major countries by Italy, Spain, Oman, Austria and Japan.

Read the report here -> http://www.photius.com/rankings/who_world_health_ranks.html

Rank Member State Population Males Females

1 Japan 74.5 71.9 77.2
2 Australia 73.2 70.8 75.5
3 France 73.1 69.3 76.9
4 Sweden 73.0 71.2 74.9
5 Spain 72.8 69.8 75.7
6 Italy 72.7 70.0 75.4
7 Greece 72.5 70.5 74.6
8 Switzerland 72.5 69.5 75.5
9 Monaco 72.4 68.5 76.3
10 Andorra 72.3 69.3 75.2
11 San Marino 72.3 69.5 75.0
12 Canada 72.0 70.0 74.0
13 Netherlands 72.0 69.6 74.4
14 United Kingdom 71.7 69.7 73.7
15 Norway 71.7 68.8 74.6
16 Belgium 71.6 68.7 74.6
17 Austria 71.6 68.8 74.4
18 Luxembourg 71.1 68.0 74.2
19 Iceland 70.8 69.2 72.3
20 Finland 70.5 67.2 73.7
21 Malta 70.5 68.4 72.5
22 Germany 70.4 67.4 73.5
23 Israel 70.4 69.2 71.6
24 United States 70.0 67.5 72.6
25 Cyprus 69.8 68.7 70.9
26 Dominica 69.8 67.2 72.3
27 Ireland 69.6 67.5 71.7
28 Denmark 69.4 67.2 71.5
29 Portugal 69.3 65.9 72.7
30 Singapore 69.3 67.4 71.2
31 New Zealand 69.2 67.1 71.2
32 Chile 68.6 66.0 71.3
33 Cuba 68.4 67.4 69.4
34 Slovenia 68.4 64.9 71.9
35 Czech Republic 68.0 65.2 70.8
36 Jamaica 67.3 66.8 67.9
37 Uruguay 67.0 64.1 69.9
38 Croatia 67.0 63.3 70.6
39 Argentina 66.7 63.8 69.6
40 Costa Rica 66.7 65.2 68.1
41 Armenia 66.7 65.0 68.3
42 Slovakia 66.6 63.5 69.7
43 Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines 66.4 65.0 67.8
44 Georgia 66.3 63.1 69.4
45 Poland 66.2 62.3 70.1
46 Yugoslavia 66.1 64.2 68.1
47 Panama 66.0 64.9 67.2
48 Antigua+Barbuda 65.8 63.4 68.3
49 Grenada 65.5 62.4 68.5
50 U. A. Emirates 65.4 65.0 65.8
51 South Korea 65.1 63.2 67.1
52 Venezuela 65.0 62.9 67.1
53 Barbados 65.0 62.4 67.6
54 Saint Lucia 65.0 62.4 67.6
55 Mexico 65.0 62.4 67.6
56 Bosnia Herzegovina 64.9 63.4 66.4
57 Trinidad+Tobago 64.6 62.8 66.4
58 Saudi Arabia 64.5 65.1 64.0
59 Brunei 64.4 63.4 65.4
60 Bulgaria 64.4 61.2 67.7
61 Bahrain 64.4 63.9 64.9
62 Hungary 64.1 60.4 67.9
63 Lithuania 64.1 60.6 67.5
64 FYRO Macedonia 63.7 61.8 65.6
65 Azerbaijan 63.7 60.6 66.7
66 Qatar 63.5 64.2 62.8
67 Cook Islands 63.4 62.2 64.5
68 Kuwait 63.2 63.0 63.4
69 Estonia 63.1 58.1 68.1
70 Ukraine 63.0 58.5 67.5
71 Paraguay 63.0 60.7 65.3
72 Oman 63.0 61.8 64.1
73 Turkey 62.9 64.0 61.8
74 Colombia 62.9 60.3 65.5
75 Tonga 62.9 61.4 64.3
76 Sri Lanka 62.8 59.3 66.3
77 Suriname 62.7 60.2 65.2
78 Mauritius 62.7 59.0 66.3
79 Dominican Republic 62.5 62.1 62.9
80 Romania 62.3 58.8 65.8
81 North Korea 62.3 59.9 64.7
82 China 62.3 61.2 63.3
83 Latvia 62.2 57.1 67.2
84 Belarus 61.7 56.2 67.2
85 Algeria 61.6 62.5 60.7
86 Niue 61.6 61.0 62.2
87 St. Kitts and Nevis 61.6 58.7 64.4
88 El Salvador 61.5 58.6 64.5
89 Moldova 61.5 58.5 64.5
90 Malaysia 61.4 61.3 61.6
91 Tunisia 61.4 62.0 60.7
92 Russian Federation 61.3 56.1 66.4
93 Honduras 61.1 60.0 62.3
94 Ecuador 61.0 59.9 62.1
95 Belize 60.9 58.5 63.3
96 Lebanon 60.6 61.2 60.1
97 Iran 60.5 61.3 59.8
98 Samoa 60.5 58.7 62.3
99 Guyana 60.2 57.1 63.3
100 Thailand 60.2 58.4 62.1
101 Uzbekistan 60.2 58.0 62.3
102 Jordan 60.0 60.7 59.3
103 Albania 60.0 56.5 63.4
104 Indonesia 59.7 58.8 60.6
105 Micronesia 59.6 58.7 60.6
106 Peru 59.4 58.0 60.8
107 Fiji 59.4 57.7 61.1
108 Libya 59.3 59.7 58.9
109 Seychelles 59.3 56.4 62.1
110 Bahamas 59.1 56.7 61.6
111 Morocco 59.1 58.7 59.4
112 Brazil 59.1 55.2 62.9
113 Palau 59.0 57.4 60.7
114 Philippines 58.9 57.1 60.7
115 Syria 58.8 58.8 58.9
116 Egypt 58.5 58.6 58.3
117 Viet Nam 58.2 56.7 59.6
118 Nicaragua 58.1 56.4 59.9
119 Cape Verde 57.6 54.6 60.6
120 Tuvalu 57.4 57.1 57.6
121 Tajikistan 57.3 55.1 59.4
122 Marshall Islands 56.8 56.0 57.6
123 Kazakhstan 56.4 51.5 61.2
124 Kyrgyzstan 56.3 53.4 59.1
125 Pakistan 55.9 55.0 56.8
126 Kiribati 55.3 53.9 56.6
127 Iraq 55.3 55.4 55.1
128 Solomon Islands 54.9 54.5 55.3
129 Turkmenistan 54.3 51.9 56.7
130 Guatemala 54.3 52.1 56.4
131 Maldives 53.9 54.4 53.3
132 Mongolia 53.8 51.3 56.3
133 Sao Tome Princi 53.5 52.1 54.8
134 Bolivia 53.3 52.5 54.1
135 India 53.2 52.8 53.5
136 Vanuatu 52.8 51.3 54.4
137 Nauru 52.5 49.8 55.1
138 Bhutan 51.8 51.4 52.2
139 Myanmar 51.6 51.4 51.9
140 Bangladesh 49.9 50.1 49.8
141 Yemen 49.7 49.7 49.7
142 Nepal 49.5 49.4 49.5
143 Gambia 48.3 47.2 49.4
144 Gabon 47.8 46.6 49.0
145 Papua New Guin. 47.0 45.5 48.5
146 Comoros 46.8 46.1 47.5
147 Lao 46.1 45.0 47.1
148 Cambodia 45.7 43.9 47.5
149 Ghana 45.5 45.0 46.0
150 Congo 45.1 44.3 45.9
151 Senegal 44.6 43.5 45.6
152 Equatorial Guinea 44.1 42.8 45.4
153 Haiti 43.8 42.4 45.2
154 Sudan 43.0 42.6 43.5
155 Côte d'Ivoire 42.8 42.2 43.3
156 Cameroon 42.2 41.5 43.0
157 Benin 44.2 41.9 42.6
158 Mauritania 41.4 40.2 42.5
159 Togo 40.7 40.0 41.4
160 South Africa 39.8 38.6 41.0
161 Chad 39.4 38.6 40.2
162 Kenya 39.3 39.0 39.6
163 Nigeria 38.3 38.1 38.4
164 Swaziland 38.1 37.8 38.4
165 Angola 38.0 37.0 38.9
166 Djibouti 37.9 37.7 38.1
167 Guinea 37.8 37.0 38.5
168 Afghanistan 37.7 36.7 38.7
169 Eritrea 37.7 38.5 36.9
170 Guinea-Bissau 37.2 36.8 37.5
171 Lesotho 36.9 36.6 37.2
172 Madagascar 36.6 36.5 36.8
173 Somalia 36.4 35.9 36.9
174 Dem. Rep. Congo 36.3 36.4 36.2
175 Ctral African Rep 36.0 35.6 36.5
176 Tanzania 36.0 35.9 36.1
177 Namibia 35.6 35.8 35.4
178 Burkina Faso 35.5 35.3 35.7
179 Burundi 34.6 34.6 34.6
180 Mozambique 34.4 33.7 35.1
181 Liberia 34.0 33.8 34.2
182 Ethiopia 33.5 33.5 33.5
183 Mali 33.1 32.6 33.5
184 Zimbabwe 32.9 33.4 32.4
185 Rwanda 32.8 32.9 32.7
186 Uganda 32.7 32.9 32.5
187 Botswana 32.3 32.3 32.2
188 Zambia 30.3 30.0 30.7
189 Malawi 29.4 29.3 29.4
190 Niger 29.1 28.1 30.1
191 Sierra Leone 25.9 25.8 26.0

http://www.infoplease.com/world/statistics/infant-mortality-life-expectancy.html


I took that and sorted:

Country Infant Mortality1
Sweden 2.7
Japan 2.8
France 3.3
Finland 3.4
Norway 3.6
Czech Republic 3.8
Germany 4.0
Israel 4.2
Spain 4.2
Switzerland 4.2
Denmark 4.3
Korea, South 4.3
Austria 4.4
Australia 4.7
Portugal 4.8
New Zealand 4.9
United Kingdom 4.9
Canada 5.0
Ireland 5.0
Greece 5.1
Italy 5.5
United States 6.2
Cyprus 6.6
Poland 6.8
Slovakia 6.8
Chile 7.7
Hungary 7.8
Costa Rica 8.7
Russia 10.5
Panama 12.6
Mexico 18.4
Sri Lanka 18.5
Albania 18.6
China 20.2
Ecuador 20.9
Venezuela 21.5
Brazil 22.6
Syria 25.8
Egypt 27.2
Guatemala 27.8
Peru 28.6
India 30.1
Zimbabwe 32.3
Iran 35.8
South Africa 44.2
Kenya 54.7
Bangladesh 59.0
Pakistan 65.1
Nigeria 94.3
Mozambique 105.8
Angola 180.2

1. Infant deaths per 1,000 live births.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, International Database.

Where did this fallacy that we're number one come from?

The only thing we're number one on is cost per person, clearly we're getting ripped off.