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


To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (1889)8/26/2007 10:29:45 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 42652
 
re: Do you suppose a tidal wave of of poor and poorly educated immigrants (including hygeine practices( might affext your healt statistics and costs?

Maybe, slightly. But not even close to enough to dispute the premise. An outlier.

And unless you can prove immigrants as a whole are less healthy than natives then it doesn't even become part of the analysis. It wouldn't surprise me if they were healthier... considering the US sedentary lifestyle.