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Originally Posted by RainMaker
Many of those nations are comparable to our tax rates, especially when you factor in that they are getting health care from it (which is one of the largest expenses a family has).
As for the life expectancy, don't you think people would take better care of themselves if they saw their doctor regularly? If they had a doctor give them advice or warnings about their health? What about regular tests like colonoscopies and mammograms that someone without health insurance would certainly avoid? Or simple pre-natal care that those without health insurance avoid and leads to our embarassingly high infant mortality rate?
A lot of countries have it and those countries almost unilaterally kick our ass in every major health statistic. You can claim that it'll lower our life expectancy rates, but note the statistics don't back up that claim.
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You act like 90% of the country has no health insurance. The vast vast majority does. There are many more eligible for Medicaid and SCHIP who are too lazy or too stupid to sign up.
Our infant mortality rates are high because there are lazy stupid people in this country, not because there is a population of uninsured.
Check the obesity rates. Is that because they lack health insurance and a doctor didn't tell them to lose weight too? America spends many more dollars on end of life care prolonging life at the end stages. When that care gets rationed it's going to immediately lower life expectancy. People don't get that care in Europe.
People act like a single payer is going to eliminate rationing from the health insured. Ha. It's going to increase, not decrease.