Chris mentioned Universal Healthcare in a comment to my last post and it reminded me of a PBS Frontline show I recently watched. It was called Sick Around the World and compared 5 other countries (UK, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland) healthcare systems to the United State's system.
I recommend watching the program if you have an hour to spare, but if not, check out the Graphs which show basically, that in the US we spend more than any of these countries (15.3% of GDP vs. 11.6 for the Swiss at #2), our life expectancy is 2 years lower than the next lowest, and the one stat that I just CAN'T believe; we have a higher infant mortality rate than any of these countries. When I think of infant mortality (which I try not to think about often) I think of the poorest of the poor and not "my country"!
Hopefully the Dems will be elected to the White House in November and hopefully they will grow a pair and try to get something done (which they haven't done since winning congress). Granted, there is a lot to clean up, but fixing our broken healthcare system should be a priority.
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I'm a big fan of Universal Health care. I firmly believe that care and wellbeing is not something that should be an option for anyone. On top of that, providing options that are both private for-profit like today and government sponsored would make the industry more competitive and better suited to caregiving.
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