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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (2938)	11/19/2007 12:16:32 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 42652

We Can Afford Universal health Care Maybe, maybe not. Either way its not something I want to afford. Message 23690392 Message 23654725 On almost all measures of health care and mortality, we lag behind Canada and Europe. A lot of the widely quoted international rankings of health care aren't very good. I've made multiple posts about the problems in some of these rankings in particular WHO's rankings. As for mortality/life expectancy, we have more homicides, more accidental death, and we are fatter. but so do people in single-payer countries, and at lower cost. With much cheaper doctors, price controls on drugs that discourage new drugs (leaving the American consumer to effectively pay for new drug research, which might be considered unfair, but if we control prices too than you won't get nearly as much investment in new drugs), different legal systems, and medical cultures, and also the accidents and homicides increase costs in the US.

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