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

To: Lane3 who wrote (4721)	2/21/2008 2:28:41 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

<<<I don't know if the exact number is 15 or not>>> The United Kingdom established the world's first universal health care system in 1948. The United States is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not provide universal health care. Some of the European countries that provide universal health care include: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Elsewhere: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea. <<<That represents about 15/16 percent of the population. I can't make any sense of that response. Perhaps you could reword it.>>> 46 million Americans, anyway you want to define them (the richest, the most highly educated, the poorest, the most middle class, the tallest, the oldest, etc) is equal to about 15 to 16 percent of the total US population of 300 million. The bottom 10 percent of that population segment without universal health care coverage will in my opinion be exposed to unacceptable health care. <<<The point is whether it's necessary or whether it's overkill. If you everyone is six feet tall, then everyone gets to ride on the roller coaster. You don't need a sign that says "you have to be this tall." But we don't need to feed everyone enough human growth hormone so that they reach six feet. That's overkill.>>> I don't know what you mean by that.