<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Jason Resch </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:jasonresch@gmail.com" target="_blank">jasonresch@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail-m_4158704014820934561gmail-"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">>> </div> Every one of the top 30 longevity countries have 2 things in common:</font><div><br><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">1) They all spend far less on healthcare than the USA does.</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">2) Unlike the USA they all have Single Payer Healthcare.</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Are you sure about point 2? A cursory look revealed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy" target="_blank">top 3 countries by life expectancy</a> are Japan, Switzerland, and Singapore.</div><div>It seems none of these countries have a single-payer system.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From Wikipedia<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">:</div></span><br></div><div> <br></div> <font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">" </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">[in Japan] <i></i></div><i>Payment for personal medical services is offered <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>by a universal health care insurance system that provides relative equality of access, with fees set by a government committee.</i><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><i></i>"</div></font></div><br><i><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">"</font></div><font size="4">Healthcare in Switzerland is universal and is regulated by the<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>Swiss Federal Law on Health Insurance. There are no free state-provided health services, but private health insurance is compulsory for all persons residing in Switzerland<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">"</div> </font></i></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><i>"</i></font></div><font size="4"><i>Healthcare in Singapore is mainly under the responsibility of the Singapore Government's Ministry of Health. Singapore generally has an efficient and widespread system of healthcare. Singapore was ranked 6th in the World Health Organisation's ranking of the world's health systems in the year 2000. Bloomberg ranked Singapore’s healthcare system the most efficient in the world in 2014.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">"</div></i></font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">All these systems are less libertarian than the US system, but they cost less and keep more people alive.</div><br></font><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>In Japan, the consumer pays 30% of the cost.</div><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">And in the USA before </div>Obamacare<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> 41 million people payed </div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">100% of the cost, that number has shrunk to 28.5 million today but if the repeal and replace bill had passed the number would have increased to 52.5 million. Repeal and replace would have been even worse than just a straight repeal. </font></div><br></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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