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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: TimF who wrote (262737)4/25/2008 3:45:26 PM
From: geode00  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
From your own source:

"The combination of those two factors goes a long way toward explaining why the U.S. spends a ton of money on health care (15 percent of the GDP, compared to 8 percent for Britain and Japan and 10.5 percent for France) and gets relatively mediocre outcomes. Life expectancy is not only lower in the U.S. than in all three of those countries, it's below average for all industrialized countries.

In short, the rest of the industrialized world does a better job of rationing health care than we do."

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There is a difference between rationing health care and refusing to pay for available health care. As I said before, I doubt that many people would over use health care. I know many people with gold plated policies paid for by large corporations who never see a doctor unless they are ready to fall over.

They may or may not use their annual allowances for checkups and eyeglass prescriptions and dental work. If you are someone who goes to the doctors five times a week, there is something seriously wrong that the doctor isn't catching or you need a new hobby and more friends.

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The US health care system will implode upon itself. For-profit companies will continue to find ways to increase costs while supplying lower quality or fewer services. Hospitals will continue to go out of business and doctors will soon spend most of their day arguing with bureaucrats.

How many Brits, Canadians, Japanese, French, Taiwanese, Germans want to replace their systems with ours?
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