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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: longnshort who wrote (18337)3/20/2007 10:53:03 PM
From: Webster Groves  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Ah, now we are getting down to business.

If there is a difference in mortality statistics between the US and Canada, there's probably a reason. Your response implies an excuse for excess US deaths, whereas I would lump all that into differences between cultures. Each nation provides care to the people as a whole within that nation, and the people and the care must be treated together in these comparisons.

I suppose you remember the story of Sparta. Now there was a nation with a very high infant mortality rate, but the reason was entirely cultural and not a poor reflection of medical practices of the time. Nevertheless, Spartans had shorter life expectancies than Athenians (even without the help of the sword).

Comparisons between Canadian and US health care systems are argued under the guise that one or the other is superior because one is more socialized and the other is less. If I were very rich, the American system would serve my personal medical needs better. The less rich I am then the better the Canadian system looks. In the US, unfortunately, for every 80 yr old getting a knee replacement, there is a combat vet getting next to no care at all. But what the heck, it's a free country, right ?

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