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Dose the USA need an NHS

Dose the USA need an NHS

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Originally posted by stoker
i think america does need a nhs but do not take ours in UK as a blue print. we get ripped off by everyone coming here.
Maybe England needs to privatize it's health care system?

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Originally posted by yo its me
That 'free market'- servival of the fitist?

Funding it? Idealy all that money Bush spends on his forign affairs would be redircted.

[b]the welfare system at present is just getting by
by this are you saying familys on welfare couldn't afford to contribute because their money just meets ends or that the govenment it stretching it's self to pay the welfare system?


Isn't the US ment to be rich?[/b]
I see what your saying and understand it

But is it not meant to encourage development in oneself ?

For exmaple, in the UK (where I live) their is a welfare state, but some many people just live off it and honestly don't care about getting a job (chavs)

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
Maybe England needs to privatize it's health care system?
Why, so it can be down with the US at around #37 in healthcare compared to other countries?

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Originally posted by karnachz
Why, so it can be down with the US at around #37 in healthcare compared to other countries?
The WHO rankings are not an objective measure of the relative performance of national health care systems. In fact, they have a strong idealogical component:

http://www.cato.org/pubs/bp/bp101.pdf

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
The WHO rankings are not an objective measure of the relative performance of national health care systems. In fact, they have a strong idealogical component:

http://www.cato.org/pubs/bp/bp101.pdf
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Ok. Here's a task. Find a health ranking where the US is above either France, the UK or Canada.

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Originally posted by Palynka
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Ok. Here's a task. Find a health ranking where the US is above either France, the UK or Canada.
ouch!

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Originally posted by Palynka
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Ok. Here's a task. Find a health ranking where the US is above either France, the UK or Canada.
The U.S. is ahead of France in soap usage; ahead of the UK in visits to the dentist and ahead of Canada in the number of MRIs performed.

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
The U.S. is ahead of France in soap usage; ahead of the UK in visits to the dentist and ahead of Canada in the number of MRIs performed.
salient pointπŸ™„