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

To: Archie Meeties who wrote (8442)	8/19/2009 3:15:54 PM
From: Lane3	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

If living longer doesn't have to do with a health insurance system, that's the perfect case for not overpaying for one. You sidestepped the point. How are deaths by accident a reflection on the health care system? If you leave your car running in the garage and die from carbon monoxide poisoning, how did the health care system fail you?

To: Archie Meeties who wrote (8442)	8/19/2009 3:17:14 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

If living longer doesn't have to do with a health insurance system, that's the perfect case for not overpaying for one. 1 - Living longer isn't the only benefit of health care or health insurance. 2 - Saying the difference between the UK and the US's life span is probably not do to the differences in the health care payment systems is not the same as saying that health care payment and insurance systems do not have a net effect of increasing life expectancy. 3 - To the extent that health insurance and health care payment systems are an important factor in how long people live, our system can help people in the rest of the world live longer, by paying for a disproportionate share of the cost of new drugs, and other medical advances. But it's just more guessing on your part. And your belief that British people live longer on the average because of their health insurance system isn't? There are a number of major factors that could be recognized and considered, and probably countless others that we don't recognize. Your saying its one thing out of many. I'm saying its likely partially or even totally due to the many other things, not the one specific thing your focused on. Absent specific solid evidence that it is the factor your focus on, your position seems far more like unsupported guessing than mine.