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

To: TimF who wrote (16075)	4/3/2010 10:54:16 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"The feds are granted powers by the constitution, if they are not granted a power to do something, than its unconstitutional for them to do so." Congress has the power to pass laws...they have done so. That's constitutional... "I don't see that as something the US does poorly in compared to other countries. I've only seen data for the US and Canada," Have you looked? Where did you see the Canadian data? When deaths due to hospital mistakes rank as the 4-5 cause of death in this country, that is something the US does poorly.... "I don't have the specific data from colon cancer, but generally the US has higher survival rates from cancer." We have the highest survival rate from breast cancer but the lowest survival from colon cancer....survey of 7-10 major countries in the world. "What does Americans tending to be fat have to do with health insurance?" Ask the insurance companies, I believe that at the moment some people are being refused insurance because of obesity. And BTW, obesity is not the only thing related to Type II diabetes... Diabetes has been around a lot longer than obesity.