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Until you learn about sentences and paragraphs, you should never lecture any one on grammar.
the personality whore is mind reading again
canada's on an unsustainable path, i think that's real sad
"to successfully pilot" is a split infinitive
never insert any word between "to" and any verb
to run, to jump, to state a "subjective viewpoint" as opposed to an "empirical claim"---infinitive form of verb, don't split it
you want to APPEAR educated, i appreciate
I see you still have problems with taking quotes out of context. Let me show you another example of taking quotes out of context that is on par with what you just did:
Did you know you where an uncaring dear, darling and dainty personality whore? See how context is important?
I read a study in the Sun Times, one of the local Chicago papers, about how if accidents and homicides are removed (things that people die from that have little to do with health care system) from the statistics, Americans are actually ranked first in life span. Switzerland then comes in second.
I might have the numbers a bit off, but it was something like Americans are 4 times more liely to die in a car accident and 12 times more likely to die by homicide then Japan, for instance.
I would also suggest that if all the countries counted a live birth as Americans do - we would improve our life expectancy even higher.
http://www.drwalt.com/blog/2009/07/...fant-mortality-rates-in-the-developed-world”/
Source? That's a false comparison unless deaths from accident and homocide were also removed from the mortality rates of the other nations mentioned.
U.S. life expectancy in 2006 was 78.1 years, ranking behind 30 other countries. So if our health care is so good, why don't we live as long as everyone else?
Three reasons. One, our homicide rate is two to three times higher than other countries. Two, because we drive so much, we have a higher fatality rate on our roads -- 14.24 fatalities per 100,000 people vs. 6.19 in Germany, 7.4 in France and 9.25 in Canada. Three, Americans eat far more than those in other nations, contributing to higher levels of heart disease, diabetes and some cancers.
These are diseases of wealth, not the fault of the health care system. A study by Robert Ohsfeldt of Texas A&M and John Schneider of the University of Iowa found that if you subtract our higher death rates from accidents and homicide, Americans actually live longer than people in other countries.
The CIA Factbook moderates infant mortality rates in the way that you suggest. If you'd like to see how life expectnacy figures look after this, it's a good source.
Funny enough that is exactly what most people say about the US medical system too!
No one, I mean no one is saying that the U.S. system is not sustainable. They say that it's terrible, it needs change, it exploits people, etc., but seeing as how it's been sustained for hundreds of years, I don't think anyone is dumb enough to think that it can't be kept up.
Is there a single post of yours that Middleground doesn't thanks, sheesh. FOIA info can be manipulated, how lame is that? What can't be manipulated then. I guess there is no truth then right? UK communist medicine sucks, and we're seeing it in articles everyday.So?
FOI Act information can be manipulated. DM always has a agenda.
It has this trip.
As i said, bring me a reputable source something not a tabloid trash.
I'll even accept Torygraph.
OOHHHHHYHHHHHHHH IT'S BUSH'S FAULT. OF COURSE, THE OLD RELIABLE. Yes that's the answer.
The notion that the nations which have a Universal Healthcare systems are not in the red, have double the tax rates from us in the US and do not have LONGER waiting lists for care that you can get tomorrow in the US, is the desperate rhetoric of those who wallow in self inflicted denial.
Germany, France, Canada and GB are in a desperate debate about how to reign in the vast costs of running their healthcare systems which thanks to Government regulations and mandated cuts require long waiting times for things as basic as acid reflux.
Where are the statistics that show the number of deaths caused as a result of waiting to find a specialist for critical operations of which there is a tremendous shortage in those nations and the reason many who rich enough to afford can bypass their own nations systems and come to the US to get the necessary care. But those statistics are hard to find because the nations who have UHC bury them or ignore the data.
I had a recent debate with a Canadian friend that sums up the mentality of those who have NEVER known any other system other than Government run systems; I asked her if she was okay with the long wait times for things as mundane as acid reflux. Her response was basically that she had NO problem waiting for something as mundane as acid reflux if someone else had a higher need. My response was; WHY SHOULD ANYONE HAVE TO WAIT?
That is the exact point. It is a point of view of the citizens of nations who have never known any other system where they view waiting as just a fact of life. Here in the USA, we don’t have a concept of what it means to wait for something as mundane as acid reflux, let alone the critical importance of heart bypass surgery.
In those nations I mentioned above, wait times for heart bypass surgery can run from three months to three years. Many have died just waiting for a doctor who can perform those operations.
In the USA, they wouldn't have released you from the hospital if you came in with that condition. Why would ANYONE want what Canadians, Great Britons, the French and Germans have?
What a vast lie from this administration to suggest that the COSTS associated with such a program will be a mere $1 trillion and that most of that cost will be covered by fixing inefficiencies. It is a vast LIE that the Government can do ANYTHING better than the private sector and for LESS cost. There is not one shred of credible evidence that anything Obama claims will ever be a reality.
In Canada, a nation awash with oil and a net exporter, gas is twice that of their biggest importer the good old USA. Their individual tax rates are higher than those in the USA. The taxes on goods are higher than those in the USA and many drive across the border for the cheaper prices on clothes and other products even after they pay the duties to get the goods back into their own nation. Even with all those additional taxes, the Canadian Healthcare system is in BIG trouble; as are those in GB, France and Germany. Pretending that they are not is dishonest and without that debate, any efforts by Europeans and Canadians to argue their systems are better is laughable.
The notion that you are not going to have to pay a much higher cost for Obama’s healthcare plan requires more than willful denial, but willful ignorance. The notion that we ALL are not going to be paying a substantial price for the Obama Stimulus plan requires similar willful ignorance. The notion that Obama’s plans are not killing the American economy requires a stunning level willful ignorance.
OOHHHHHYHHHHHHHH IT'S BUSH'S FAULT. OF COURSE, THE OLD RELIABLE. Yes that's the answer.
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