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To: TimF who wrote (555463)	3/16/2010 6:17:15 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576591

" If the insurance system does not significantly effect obesity rates than it can not be blamed for our higher obesity." Wow! You shouldn't have to be told what the effects of obesity are....unless you live in cave. All of those create more and higher medical bills. Medical bills are usually paid by insurance, but you insist obesity rates don't affect the system...???? That's Brumey logic... Here are 4 links on US medical care vis-vis other major countries....they need no explanation, but to know what's in them you do have to read at least part of each.... And then come back and tell me about waiting times and how that makes us 1st in the world. webmd.com huppi.com marketwatch.com nytimes.com re: "Waiting times..." "Ugly Health Care Waiting Times? Look at the U.S What country endures such long waits for medical care that even one of its top insurers recently admitted that care is "not timely" and people "initially diagnosed with cancer are waiting over a month, which is intolerable?" If you guessed Canada, guess again. The answer is the United States. Business Week, no great fan of a national healthcare system, reported in late June that "as several surveys and numerous anecdotes show, waiting times in the U.S. are often as bad or worse as those in other industrialized nations -- despite the fact that the U.S. spends considerably more per capita on health care than any other country." A Commonwealth Fund study of six highly industrialized countries, the U.S., and five nations with national health systems, Britain, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, found waiting times were worse in the U.S. than in all the other countries except Canada. huffingtonpost.com