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To: i-node who wrote (704546)	3/16/2013 4:17:30 PM
From: Alighieri	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573092

Okay. If our system is the "dumbest in the world" -- why is it the United States is responsible for the vast majority of the world's medical innovation? And not just by a little. So, why is that, if we in fact have such a shitty health care system? I never said that we have a "shitty" health care system. I said it was dumb...as in a hodge podge patchwork of private insurance and social medicine for the elderly and poorest among us...and then there are (were) the uninsured who rely on crisis care only...and it is among, if not the, most expensive in the world....access is fine if you are not poor...if you are poor or uninsured, you have spotty care...as in late and crisis driven. Even when some initial research is done in another country (as with mammography in Germany or CT in Great Britain) it ends up being converted to a commercially feasible solution in the US. Because some of the largest medical companies are American...so are oil companies, car companies, and likewise for other industries. And by the way, we have our fair share of avant-garde advancements here in the US, but the ROW is contributing important work as we;;...we just heard of work in the UK that seems to cure AIDS...other in scotland that cures c-diff...after all Louis Pasteur was a frenchman and Barnard a South African. It is a fact that Obamacare is starting to kill our innovation -- This is utter and absolute non sense...fact my ass Al

To: i-node who wrote (704546)	3/16/2013 5:40:41 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573092

These Are The 36 Countries That Have Better Healthcare Systems Than The US 36/37 1 - France (Photo by Franck Prevel/Getty Images) Expenditure per capita rank: 4 The French system combines private and public sectors to provide universal health coverage to all. Most citizens receive their insurance through their employer and almost everyone has supplemental private insurance. The majority of medical bills are paid for by the government (funds from payroll and income taxes) and the remainder is footed by individual's supplemental private insurance. Source: World Health Report 2000 Read more: businessinsider.com