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A Graphic Graphic

by: Jennifer Daler

Mon Jan 04, 2010 at 19:48:51 PM EST
If this graphic doesn't show how badly the US compares with the rest of the world regarding health care, I don't know what does. The US is the one all the way up top. Orange lines are countries without universal health care. (US and Mexico on this chart.)

Why do we accept lower standards than the rest of the industrialized world? Do we think so poorly of ourselves, that we deserve to pay more for less? That American citizens deserve to die for the crime of not having enough money to pay for care/insurance coverage?

From National Geographic

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The thickness of the lines indicates utilization. The thicker the line, the more the health care system is used.

h/t: mcjoan
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Exhibit B (4.00 / 1)

h/t the intergovernmental Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

in this graph you've posted (0.00 / 0)
it is easier to see an answer to Dean's questions. I'd say it's not about what we think we deserve; these graphs and the human tragedies they represent are a side effect of the idea that the already astronomically rich deserve to get richer. That big blue line that's ours on the right represents a huge ongoing transfer of funds from the low income and middle class to the extremely wealthy.

This has been sold to us as the American way. Billionaires for Wealthcare sweep in the chips, no matter what happens to you.

=Health care for all now!=

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sorry I meant - (0.00 / 0)
Jennifer's questions. Posting before coffee = bad idea.

=Health care for all now!=
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Equality and opportunity are contradictory principles (0.00 / 0)
which suggest that the American people aren't committed to either.  If an assumption has to be made explicit, it's no longer an assumption.  And, of course, when the Constitution was adopted, the assumption that all men are equal was deftly circumvented with a very narrow definition of "men" to exclude persons whose gender and conditions of servitude made them unfit.
You see, right there, the exceptions were used to "prove" the rule.  And so it continues.
Opportunity is preferred over equality.  Why is that?  Probably because "opportunity" leaves room for discrimination and deprivation, even as it holds out the promise of compensation to the victims of unequal treatment.  The promise of salvation covers a whole heap of deprivation.  

And, of course, salvation is needed because all men are created evil.  God created evil and yet there are men claiming to do God's work and claiming to do good by proclaiming that suffering in life will be rewarded in the after-life.  Talk about a con!

How many of the medically deprived are adherents of fundamentalist sects?  

What the non-medically deprived have time for: (0.00 / 0)

wait a second! (0.00 / 0)
I thought universal health care doesn't work because you end up dying at 50 after waiting 10 years for a doctor's appointment?  But we know that Japan and many other nations give all their citizens insurance and care for less money and better outcomes (at least as measured by life expectancy).  Our system only works for those who can afford to pay for it, even though those people wind up getting the same type of care they so often denounce as horrible.
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