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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (204168)9/24/2006 5:33:00 AM
From: KyrosL  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Hi CB. There was a recent study that compared the health of the average white male American to that of the average white Englishman. The Englishmen came out way ahead.

Life expectancies of American whites are still below those of Canadians, Japanese and western Europeans.

What is really alarming, is that these other countries achieve these results even though they spend on the average roughly half of what we spend on health care per capita, and even though their people are older on the average than we are.

The US government already spends half of every health care dollar on medicare, medicaid, veterans. For that amount of money other countries are able to insure their entire population, not just the old and the extremely poor.

We spend 15% of our GDP on health care. This is projected to increase to 20+%, when the boomers hit retirement in large numbers. This is a terrible competitive disadvantage versus other countries. It nullifies the other advantages the US has, such as labor flexibility, etc.
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