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To: i-node who wrote (199291)	9/1/2004 2:40:51 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572358

An indigent patient in the United States can (I stress "CAN") receive better care than the same indigent patient in Germany. He has to try. But he can get it. "Myth: The U.S. has the best health care system in the world. Fact: The U.S. has among the worst health statistics of all rich nations." <font color=brown>"Nor is America's international reputation in health care as high as many Americans boast it to be. "Ask anyone you know from a foreign country... which country is the envy of the world when it comes to health care," Rush Limbaugh wrote in See, I Told You So. But according to a Gallup poll published by the Toronto Star, only 2 percent of all Canadians believe that the U.S. has a better health care system than their own. (5) The fact is that America does not have the finest health care system in the world; it has the finest emergency care system in the world. Highly trained American doctors can summon Star Wars-type technology in saving patients who have become seriously injured or critically ill. But as far as preventative medicine goes, the U.S. is still in the Stone Age. It should be no surprise that in America's health care business, entrepreneurs will take a pound of cure over an ounce of prevention every time." huppi.com

To: i-node who wrote (199291)	9/1/2004 7:45:59 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572358

"An indigent patient in the United States can (I stress "CAN") receive better care than the same indigent patient in Germany. " If the health care system is so much better here, then why is the life expectancy so much lower? capitals.com