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OUR BAD BAD HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
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OUR BAD BAD HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
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Fifty million Americans–one out of every six – have no health coverage. They can’t see a doctor when they’re sick. If two people are physically identical–same age, same
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OUR BAD BAD HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
posted at July 25, 2012 7:37 PM EDT
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Re: OUR BAD BAD HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
posted at July 31, 2012 6:37 PM EDT
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Didn't Grayson get defeated because of his looney views? I suppose our poor healthcare system is the reason tens of thousands of Canadians cross our border to get healthcare that's not available (or takes too long to receive) in their country. Response to OUR BAD BAD HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: Fifty million Americans–one out of every six – have no health coverage. They can’t see a doctor when they’re sick. If two people are physically identical–same age, same race, same gender, even same smoking history and same weight–and one has health insurance and one does not, the one without health insurance is 40% more likely to die each year. According to a peer-reviewed Harvard study, 43,789 Americans die every year because they have no health insurance. That’s more than ten times the number who died on 9/11. But not just once–every year. Rich Americans live almost a decade longer than poor Americans do. Unpaid medical bills are the leading cause of bankruptcy. America is the only advanced country in the world without universal healthcare. Even Trinidad has it. We pay 30% more for healthcare than any other country in the world, but we are 50th in life expectancy –just above Cuba. ALAN GRAYSON--FL Posted by JANMB |
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Re: OUR BAD BAD HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
posted at August 4, 2012 7:31 AM EDT
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In Response to Re: OUR BAD BAD HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: Didn't Grayson get defeated because of his looney views? I suppose our poor healthcare system is the reason tens of thousands of Canadians cross our border to get healthcare that's not available (or takes too long to receive) in their country. Response to OUR BAD BAD HEALTHCARE SYSTEM : Posted by Labrat64 Grayson got defeated cause we have uneducated people in Florida who voted for the name Daniel-Webster cause they recall something about a Daniel Webster & guns .... so it sounded REAL--- good. Americans Fear Canada's Health-Care System, But Not as Much as Canadians Fear America's. It’ll be a good day when when Americans can hold their heads high and proudly make that same declaration as Canadians who get what they need the vast majority of the time. Canada’s health care system is NOT “socialized medicine.” In socialized medical systems, the doctors work directly for the state. In Canada (and many other countries with universal care), doctors run their own private practices, just like they do in the US. The only difference is that every doctor deals with one insurer, instead of 150. And that insurer is the provincial government, which is accountable to the legislature and the voters if the quality of coverage is allowed to slide. |
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