Re: Sicko Revisited
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I'm also curious to all the people against the concept; of the countries featured on the DVD (Canada, Cuba, France, Norway (#1 for Healthcare) and even many 3rd world countries)... many of these countries supply universal healthcare and there people have better health standards then the US. How do you explain this?
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One reason is that the rest of the world severely underinvests in healthcare research and just lets the US pay for it all. A huge chunk of the money that Americans spend on healthcare is invested in R&D, and a correspondingly huge percentage of healthcare innovations are made in the US.
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This rebuttal falls flat considering much (certainly not all) of the medical R&D in America is funded by the federal government and performed by state universities. Kind of silly to use the success of some government spending as an argument against government spending.
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