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

To: TimF who wrote (6893)	6/5/2009 6:41:01 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

They pay less, but they have lower doctor income (which may be hard to put in place here), lower malpractice suit/insurance costs (which isn't really part of their medical matter, but rather another issue, and not a simple one that can be easily resolved), drug cost subsidized by American consumers funding much of the R&D costs (not really part of their insurance model), marginally less problem with obesity, and many other differences that just imposing their insurance model wouldn't change for the US. It works for them. Maybe you are right and the US is uniquely unhealthy compared to Europe. But with all their systems much cheaper the casual observer would guess it's the system that makes the difference. The Germans, for instance, don't have a really healthy diet or lifestyle.