Looks to me that Singapore (two-tier), Cuba (single-payer), and Malta (single-payer) know how to keep costs down, and Japan (single-payer) knows where to keep life expectancy up.

Health Care Spending

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Defeating market theocrats since 2001.

It also helps that in Japan they do not feel the need to eat, drink and smoke themselves to death.

I assume we have really smart people here that can figure this kind of stuff out. A workable, cost-effective system that avoids the pitfalls in other countries' systems.

I just refuse to believe that it's all that difficult.

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"Oh, bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round...

Thank god we have a two-tier system already..

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Pioneers are walking all around singing songs about Lenin and they should be shot for it.

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"If you are looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"- V

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

come on you know you wanna play football..

Beagán agus a rá go maith.

Economic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87

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Defeating market theocrats since 2001.

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Defeating market theocrats since 2001.

Hell, pharmaceutical companies spend as much on advertising as they do on actual research.

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nice graph. I wonder what kind of conclusions one can draw from this...... ;)

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No party holds the privilege of dictating to me how I shall vote. If loyalty to party is a form of patriotism, I am no patriot. If there is any valuable difference between a monarchist and an American, it lies in the theory that the American can decide for himself what is patriotic and what isn't. I claim that difference. I am the only person in the sixty millions that is privileged to dictate my patriotism.
- Mark Twain, a Biography

That the most expensive health care system in the world doesn't produce the results it should.

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"Oh, bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round...

The US version of public healthcare is terrible. It's much more expensive, less efficient that other public systems. The only problem is not that public healthcare is bad, but that American public healthcare is bad.

It's a bastardized system of compromises and inefficient amalgamations of concepts.

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