Good article addressing the false claims as relative to health care...food for thought...BD
The United States spends far more on health care per person than any other nation. Yet we have lower life expectancy than most other rich countries. Furthermore, every other advanced country provides all its citizens with health insurance; only in America is a large fraction of the population uninsured or underinsured.
So I thought it would be useful to offer a catalog of the most commonly heard apologies for U.S. health care, and the reasons they won't wash.
Excuse No. 1: No insurance, no problem. "I mean, people have access to health care in America," said President Bush a few months ago. "After all, you just go to an emergency room." He was widely mocked for his cluelessness, yet many apologists for the health care system in the United States seem almost equally clueless.
Excuse No. 2: It's the cheeseburgers. There's a grain of truth to this claim: Bad habits may partially explain the United States' low life expectancy.
Excuse No. 3: 2007 is better than 1950. This is an argument that baffles me, but you hear it all the time.
Excuse No. 4: Socialized medicine! Socialized medicine! Rudy Giuliani's fake numbers on prostate cancer -- which, by the way, he still refuses to admit were wrong -- were the latest entry in a long, dishonorable tradition of peddling scare stories about the evils of "government-run" health care.
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