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To: jttmab who wrote (3953)6/30/2001 4:20:20 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 93284
 
OK. What then are your proposals for solving the problems of poverty rate and these?
Percent of population covered by public health care:

ALL NATIONS (except below) 100%
France, Austria 99
Switzerland, Spain, Belgium 98
Germany 92
Netherlands 77
United States 40
Average paid maternity leave (as of 1991; this changed with Clinton's signing of the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act):

Sweden 32 weeks
France 28
United Kingdom 18
Norway 18
Denmark 18
Japan 14
Germany 14
Netherlands 12
United States 0

And how do you define "poverty" for your computation of poverty rate?

It also appears that you promote socialized medicine; if that's not socialistic, what is it?