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People live longer in Canada than the USA explain that please

liberal343 on August 1, 2009 at 2:31 PM

In addition to the other numbers that already have shown you a fool; the obesity rate in the US is astronomical which leads to a great number of heart and respiratory problems that no amount of for pay or ‘free’(re: taxed to death for the illusion of free) health care will fix. It’s a cultural issue and basically illustrates the concept of a people who are victims of their own success as we have become increasingly sedentary due to growing wealth and the economy becoming less industrialized and move customer service based.

Further to the gun deaths cited added to this downward trend, it is a well known fact that societies that tend to be more homogeneous (like Canada is aside from Toronto) culturally, violent crime and murders are lower. Again, we are victims of our own tolerance of other people. (not that I think that attribute of Americans should be sacrificed for an additional 2 years on the life expectancy. 78 years is a pretty good go at it)
So looking at a mere number in such simplistic terms as you have will only lead to you false conclusions and oases in the desert rather than actual knowledge or understanding of an issue. Something tells me, with all due respect, that isn’t an uncommon occurrence with you.

Found via Hot Air, and posted here for posterity, ABC’s John Stoessel exposes the weakness of the Universal Healthcare Utopia the Democrats are trying to Rahm down our throats. We already know what happens when the government runs healthcare, it’s……

– Barack Obama
Manchurian Candidate
Commander in Thief

No. You. Did. Not.

Balanced!?!?!? WTF, Allah…????”

I gotta concur. What the heck do you mean, AllahPundit? What would you have preferred to see — what would have been “balanced” in your view. Heck Stossel completely left out any discussion of how the “free as the air” *isn’t* free because the pay much more in taxes than we do. I recall having a conversation with a colleague of mine from France who kept talking about the “free” healthcare the French get, and what a pity Americans have to pay for healthcare. I pointed out to her that France has roughly twice the personal income tax rate of the US, and payroll taxes something like 4x over the US….all to get that “free” healthcare.

In Canada, do the politicians and liberal elite have to us the National Healthcare System or is there another tier for them?

Federal Cabinet Ministers (in Canada, the Cabinet is equal in power to the U.S. President) have access to the Armed Forces health services rather than the provincial plans.

Ironically, the best place to be in Canada if you want excellent health care can be in one of the three territories, which do not have the major hospitals of the provinces. If you need immediate medical attention in a territory, you’re flown to one of the major cities, where you may end up bumping someone who may have been on a waiting list for some time.

Stossel moving to Fox?

d1carter on August 1, 2009 at 12:18 PM

Yeah, give him O’Reilly’s job!

Not the most balanced piece on health care that you’ll ever see

You know, sometimes things are so bad or so evil that being balanced really isn’t called for. You’re so worried about balance, are you one of those who say, “Well, yeah, Hitler killed a lot of people but he created jobs and loved his dog.” That’s balanced, eh?

Balanced!?!?!? WTF, Allah…????

Ragspierre on August 1, 2009 at 12:12 PM

Ragspierre, ignore the troll named Allah.

Hope there’s some room at Fox for him.

John Stossel and Jake Tapper are the two bright stars at ABC. The network would be wise to raise their profile in the coming years if they want to avoid becoming irrelevant.

Stickeehands on August 1, 2009 at 6:28 PM

And get rid of a few: Charles Gibson, Terry Moran and Diane Sawyer.

liberal

Could the lower “at birth” numbers for the US reflect the point that’s been made about US-Cuba comparison, namely that because our superior technology for premature births allows more babies to be born who then don’t survive beyond a short period, but who never would been born alive at all in other countries, it “drags down” our overall expectancy?

That argument is consistent with both the data and with the claim that US healthcare is still superior across the board.

Posted by: Steve Horwitz at Aug 1, 2009

Hmmm not so simple eh?

People live longer in Canada than the USA explain that please

liberal343 on August 1, 2009 at 2:31 PM

I dunno mr simplistic

From medicinenet.com

The gun-related deaths per 100,000 people in 1994 by country were as follows:

* U.S.A. 14.24
* Brazil 12.95
* Mexico 12.69
* Estonia 12.26
* Argentina 8.93
* Northern Ireland 6.63
* Finland 6.46
* Switzerland 5.31
* France 5.15
* Canada 4.31

It is from 94 but likely the same today

Tommy_G on August 1, 2009 at 4:17 PM

yep, all too true. Mark Steyn has some Good Stuff on this, including the 21-year-old Quebecker who showed up at the ER with severe abdominal pain but no ‘health care card’. He went home to get it, was in too much pain to get back to the ER and died before the ambulance arrived

Ambulances, in an odd quick of Up North Health Care, are not included. You drive yourself to the ER, or pay out of pocket for the ambulance.

The life span for White and Asian Americans is higher than the life span of Canadians……..