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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (1011)	2/8/2006 10:55:54 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42652

"America's health care system may be too expensive, but when you really dig down, the outcome is the similar for the USA versus "most of Western Europe, Canada, and Japan". European Americans (born in the USA)live about as long as their "cousins" in Germany, England, Scotland and Ireland. Asians Americans (born in the USA) live about as long as Asians who live in "First World Asian Nations", and Hispanics born in the United States can expect to live just as long, if not longer than their cousins in other countries (whether they live in Cuba or Spain). In fact American born Hispanics have a longer expected lifespan than Non-Hispanic whites - do you think native born Hispanics in the USA have greater access to medical care in the USA than Non-Hispanic whites? One unmentioned advantage of a private based medical system, is that it trains a nation's citizenry not look always to government first when there is a problem. Oddly enough, the way the system works now, those with private health insurance (especially those outside of HMO's) subsidize those without (to each according to his means). Anyway, if the National Government can't get something as important as public education "right", why do you think they'd get Nationalized Medicine "right"? Medicine is a limited commodity even on a National Level. This means that at some time there will be rationing of care - and this means, who gets "rationed" may sometimes come down to either who you know (Socialized Medicine) or how much money you have (Private)." Message 22140659 Breakdown of lifespan in the US by ethnic group is found at Message 22143910 That post also includes the comment - "I wonder how much better American life expectancy would be, if our murder rate and other bad habits (diet) were more like, say the Japanese." All in all a pretty good argument against the idea that nationalized health care would likely lead to longer lifespans in the US.