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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (16084)	4/5/2010 11:22:05 AM
From: TimF	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Congress has the power to pass laws...they have done so. They have the power to pass laws covering the federal government's constitutional areas of responsibility. Not to pass any law that says anything for any reason. We are a nation of constitutionally limited government, not unlimited unchecked absolute control by congress. Where did you see the Canadian data? Someone posted it on this thread. When deaths due to hospital mistakes rank as the 4-5 cause of death in this country, that is something the US does poorly.... Its apparently something everyone does poorly. I'm asking for some area where we do relatively poorly (much worse than other nations), and preferably with information about the other countries as well, not just "X Americans die from this, wow we must be so horrible" 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. 7 to 10 is a small sample. Also in cancer broadly we have better survival rates, so this isn't an area we do worse. Sure you can find specific disorders were we do worse, maybe colon cancer is one of them (I'll take your word for it for now), but if we do worse on colon cancer, but better on cancer in general that's not a sign of a problem with the American medical or medical insurance setup. "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. That doesn't show a relevant connection. A lot of Americans get diabetes, because of our diet and exercise habits and obesity. Our insurance setup doesn't determine our diet and exercise habits or our obesity levels. And BTW, obesity is not the only thing related to Type II diabetes Sure but the main reason Americans have a lot of it is because of our obesity levels. Add in poor diet and/or exercise habits even when they don't lead to obesity, and that's probably the overwhelming reason why our numbers are higher than average.