<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 at 5:01 am, John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 11:14 AM William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>DEmocrats are proposing Medicare For All programs that are certainly liberal, probably radical, possibly unwise (me - way too much money for most of these,</i></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">Medicare For All wouldn't be too expensive if the USA didn't have the most inefficient health system on planet Earth<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, it spends FAR more money on health then anybody else but the people are quite simply not getting their </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">money's worth.</span> Japan<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> has</span> the longest <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lived </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">population</span> in the world and <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">it</span> spend<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">s</span> on average $4150 per person per year<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> on health, </span>Australia is #4 <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">on the longest lived list </span>and <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">it </span>spends $4420<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">; as for the USA it's way down to #31 on the long lived list and yet it spends </span>$9451 per-person per-year on healthcare<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> and that is far more than anybody else. Something is obviously wrong with a health care system and it certainly isn't the Japanese. </span></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"> Every one of the top 30 <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">countries that beat the USA in </span>longevity have 2 things in common:</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br>1) They all spend <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FAR</span> less on healthcare than the USA does.<br>2) Unlike the USA they all have <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">something very much like </span>Medicare For All<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The data just doesn't support the claim made by the right that an advanced industrial country in the 21'th century can't afford to</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">give medical care to its population.</span></span></font></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It’s even more striking given that for other goods and services, the US is significantly cheaper than most comparable countries.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></span></font></div></div>
</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Stathis Papaioannou</div>