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To: i-node who wrote (762925)	1/10/2014 2:09:51 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572900

"the US has always, before now, provided the best health care in the world. " Nope; not in many years. That's just a fairy tale wingers tell themselves around the digital campfire. The United States does not have the best health care system in the world Karen Harper August 3, 2009 In fact, it's not even close to being the best health care system in the world. Republicans have fought President Obama on every bill he has worked on and health care reform is no exception. Senator Richard Shelby (R), Alabama, said that President Obama's health care plan is the "first step in destroying the best health care system the world has ever known." Senator Chuck Grassley (R), Iowa, told a constituent in a town hall meeting that if he wanted health insurance to get a job with the government. Perhaps Grassley would like the government to provide 47 million jobs to solve the problem of the uninsured in America. There are several important aspects about the United States health care system that make it one of the worst of all the industrialized nations. First is the cost: The truth is that Americans pay more for health care than any other country in the world and yet the health care Americans receive is ranked by the World Health Organization (WHO) 37th in overall performance and 72nd in overall level of health of the 191 nations included in the 2000 study. It's not all bad however, the U.S. is ranked high in catching rare cancers early. In 2008, a report by the Commonwealth Fund ranked the U.S. last in the quality of health care among the 19 countries compared. The United States has the highest infant mortality rate of all develped countries. And yet, the Commonwealth Fund reports that the U.S. "leads all industrialized countries in the share of national health care expenditures devoted to insurance administration. The United States is the only wealthy, industrialized, developed country in the world that does not offer health care to all of its citizens. Medical bills prompt more than 60% of all U.S. bankruptcies according to CNN. Bankruptcies attributed to medical bills increased by nearly 50% from 2001 to 2007. 75% of all people who went bankrupt because of medical bills had health insurance. .... examiner.com