The article also leaves out the vast size of the United States compared to most of those on the list. There are plenty of areas in this country that are closer to Third World Nations due to jobs being shipped overseas.
When they try to tie together statistics why don't they also factor in how many Americans work full time jobs at pay below the poverty level which is more inline with Third World Nations and not industrial ones?
Don't worry some of our numbers will change as far as overweight related early deaths. The reason why Americans weigh more than people in other countries is that their food costs twice as much as ours. They can't afford to eat as much but that is changing since ours is going up way higher than inflation.
Americans also have less free time and work longer hours than people in other nations. How are Americans supposed to eat healthy when they don't have time to cook for themselves?
The only way to fix America is to get rid of the new America and go back to the old America. The real America and not this sissy new age America.
Our version of socialized medicine is not the answer, although, I suppose, it's better than nothing. The best answer is Health Savings Accounts. For no other reason, HSAs will teach the public how to become more healthy as not doing so will come right out of their pocket. The more healthy one becomes, the lesser the cost.
No, it's not. I get health insurance options from my employer -- including one for an HSA. The only way you can get an HSA is if you're signed up for a HDHP -- high deductible health plan. Meaning that I pay 100% of my health expenses until I reach that high deductible (for me, $2000). This covers me in case of an accident, but I have to pay for 100% of my preventative care and medications. Instead, I chose an HMO. It has less flexibility, but I get much better care because of better communication between doctors and efficiency of care received. Employers prefer HDHPs because its cheaper. If you don't use health insurance much (which is the exact OPPOSITE of what this article advocates), then HDHPs are a better fit.
We can start by cutting off foreign aid to developed nations with large militaries like for instance...Israel.
We divert all that money towards our medical needs. We could also cut military spending by 50% and divert the difference to fixing our infrastructure. We could move all those bases around the world home, and cut down on the multiple carrier fleets we have today.
Yeah, we 'Libs' do have the answer! Simple! It is called EDUCATION. If all the dumb crackers(no slight to any peoplein the South), were better educated they would know more about their bodies and whats good for them...drink less, fight less, do fewer drugs and alcohol, have better jobs which = MORE self esteem and less desire to do dumb sh@#!! European countries outscore us in every area of education, and their publicly funded health systems are generally better and spend HALF the $$$$.
Thirty-two of the thirty-three developed nations have universal health care, with the United States being the lone exception
Country and start of universal health care:
Norway 1912 New Zealand 1938 Japan 1938 Germany 1941 Belgium 1945 United Kingdom 1948 Kuwait 1950 Sweden 1955 Bahrain 1957 Brunei 1958 Canada 1966 Netherlands 1966 Austria 1967 United Arab Emirates 1971 Finland 1972 Slovenia 1972 Denmark 1973 Luxembourg 1973 France 1974 Australia 1975 Ireland 1977 Italy 1978 Portugal 1979 Cyprus 1980 Greece 1983 Spain 1986 South Korea 1988 Iceland 1990 Hong Kong 1993 Singapore 1993 Switzerland 1994 Israel 1995
The United States will have at least a partial insurance mandate by 2014 if it is not overturned.
And, according to government statistics, the U.S. ranks 50th in the world regarding life expectancy, at 78.37 years. FYI, Monaco ranks first, at 89.73 years.
And, the U.S. ranks a low 41st among countries with the lowest infant mortality rate. That means 40 countries - yes, 40 - have lower deaths among infants. Incredible.
Report: U.S. life expectancy lowest among wealthy nations due to disease, violence
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Amazing.....yet we have so many republican ideologues that continue to tell us how wonderful our very expensive for-profit health care system is, despite the fact that we have tens of millions uninsured, as well as tens of millions under-insured, and our health care outcomes are worse than most of the other industrialized countries around the world!
LOL! Just another clueless republican ideologue, since we should have learned from all the other industrialized countries, and implemented SP-UHC a long time ago, so that all our citizens would have health care, and our costs would be less than half the current $3 Trillion per year, with the for-profit insurance industry skimming the cream right off the top in pure profit and greed!
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When they try to tie together statistics why don't they also factor in how many Americans work full time jobs at pay below the poverty level which is more inline with Third World Nations and not industrial ones?
Don't worry some of our numbers will change as far as overweight related early deaths. The reason why Americans weigh more than people in other countries is that their food costs twice as much as ours. They can't afford to eat as much but that is changing since ours is going up way higher than inflation.
The only way to fix America is to get rid of the new America and go back to the old America. The real America and not this sissy new age America.
We divert all that money towards our medical needs.
We could also cut military spending by 50% and divert the difference to fixing our infrastructure.
We could move all those bases around the world home, and cut down on the multiple carrier fleets we have today.
Country and start of universal health care:
Norway 1912
New Zealand 1938
Japan 1938
Germany 1941
Belgium 1945
United Kingdom 1948
Kuwait 1950
Sweden 1955
Bahrain 1957
Brunei 1958
Canada 1966
Netherlands 1966
Austria 1967
United Arab Emirates 1971
Finland 1972
Slovenia 1972
Denmark 1973
Luxembourg 1973
France 1974
Australia 1975
Ireland 1977
Italy 1978
Portugal 1979
Cyprus 1980
Greece 1983
Spain 1986
South Korea 1988
Iceland 1990
Hong Kong 1993
Singapore 1993
Switzerland 1994
Israel 1995
The United States will have at least a partial insurance mandate by 2014 if it is not overturned.
http://truecostblog.com/2009/08/09/countries-with-universal-healthcare-by-date/
And, according to government statistics, the U.S. ranks 50th in the world regarding life expectancy, at 78.37 years. FYI, Monaco ranks first, at 89.73 years.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html
And, the U.S. ranks a low 41st among countries with the lowest infant mortality rate. That means 40 countries - yes, 40 - have lower deaths among infants. Incredible.
http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-204_162-10009232.html?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.8
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Amazing.....yet we have so many republican ideologues that continue to tell us how wonderful our very expensive for-profit health care system is, despite the fact that we have tens of millions uninsured, as well as tens of millions under-insured, and our health care outcomes are worse than most of the other industrialized countries around the world!