You deserve to get deathly ill and get your benefits cut so you die a slow, painful death. That's exactly what you deserve. You also deserve to be blown up in Iraq and to get shot in the face by Dick Cheney. Or like Pat Tillman was murdered.
You people are evil liars. You are enemies of this country. You have no ethics or morals. You want this country destroyed for the sake of the top 1% most greedy and selfish. You stink.
Are you really an angry adolescent? Or did you just get arrested at that level of emotional development?
Sound like an angry child throwing a tantrum, screaming I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.
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Americans live 75.3 years on average, fewer than Canadians (77.3) or the French (76.6) or the citizens of any Western European nation save Portugal. Health care influences life expectancy, of course. But a life can end because of a murder, a fall or a car accident. Such factors aren't academic — homicide rates in the U.S. are much higher than in other countries.
In The Business of Health, Robert Ohsfeldt and John Schneider factor out intentional and unintentional injuries from life-expectancy statistics and find that Americans who don't die in car crashes or homicides outlive people in any other Western country.
And if we measure a health care system by how well it serves its sick citizens, American medicine excels. Five-year cancer survival rates bear this out. For leukemia, the American survival rate is almost 50%; the European rate is just 35%. Esophageal carcinoma: 12% in the U.S., 6% in Europe. The survival rate for prostate cancer is 81.2% here, yet 61.7% in France and down to 44.3% in England — a striking variation.
Like many critics of American health care, though, Krugman argues that the costs are just too high: health care spending in Canada and Britain, he notes, is a small fraction of what Americans pay. Again, the picture isn't quite as clear as he suggests. Because the U.S. is so much wealthier than other countries, it isn't unreasonable for it to spend more on health care. Take America's high spending on research and development. M.D. Anderson in Texas, a prominent cancer center, spends more on research than Canada does.
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I think America should reject socialist ideas which would destroy institutions like MD Anderson and drag down our cancer survival rates. |
