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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

Healthcare costs in Western countries average about 7-8% of GDP, excepting the USA where it's about 15%. Most Western countries have universal health schemes where it seems about a third of Americans have no healthcare coverage.

I have never been able to understand why Americans like paying twice as much as comparable countries for a lot less healthcare. Perhaps someone could enlighten me

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

Healthcare costs in Western countries average about 7-8% of GDP, excepting the USA where it's about 15%. Most Western countries have universal health schemes where it seems about a third of Americans have no healthcare coverage.

I have never been able to understand why Americans like paying twice as much as comparable countries for a lot less healthcare. Perhaps someone could enlighten me

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

Healthcare costs in Western countries average about 7-8% of GDP, excepting the USA where it's about 15%. Most Western countries have universal health schemes where it seems about a third of Americans have no healthcare coverage.

I have never been able to understand why Americans like paying twice as much as comparable countries for a lot less healthcare. Perhaps someone could enlighten me

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ORIGINAL: Edwynn

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

Healthcare costs in Western countries average about 7-8% of GDP, excepting the USA where it's about 15%. Most Western countries have universal health schemes where it seems about a third of Americans have no healthcare coverage.

I have never been able to understand why Americans like paying twice as much as comparable countries for a lot less healthcare. Perhaps someone could enlighten me

This government is more controlled by private interests than in any other developed country, by far. It's essentially just a more sophisticated and polished version of third world government on a large scale. As just one example, Monsanto has one of their sharks well in place at the FDA and USDA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_R._Taylor  and essentially writing a proposed law that will virtually eliminate naturally grown food.   http://farmwars.info/?p=594

This sort of thing goes on constantly here. The insurance companies wrote the health coverage law, the finance industries pushed through deregulation, got a few hundred billions as reward for wrecking the economy, then wrote the ensuing financial reform law.

Just SOP here.

The corporate media do the job of making people want to give as much as possible to very rich people, especially tax money, while making them hate poor people.

Those that object or even try to point out these everyday workings are usually shouted down by much of the populace and ridiculed by the media.

For being such a putatively freedom loving people, it's amazing how easily led by the leash many of them are.

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ORIGINAL: Edwynn

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

Healthcare costs in Western countries average about 7-8% of GDP, excepting the USA where it's about 15%. Most Western countries have universal health schemes where it seems about a third of Americans have no healthcare coverage.

I have never been able to understand why Americans like paying twice as much as comparable countries for a lot less healthcare. Perhaps someone could enlighten me

This government is more controlled by private interests than in any other developed country, by far. It's essentially just a more sophisticated and polished version of third world government on a large scale. As just one example, Monsanto has one of their sharks well in place at the FDA and USDA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_R._Taylor  and essentially writing a proposed law that will virtually eliminate naturally grown food.   http://farmwars.info/?p=594

This sort of thing goes on constantly here. The insurance companies wrote the health coverage law, the finance industries pushed through deregulation, got a few hundred billions as reward for wrecking the economy, then wrote the ensuing financial reform law.

Just SOP here.

The corporate media do the job of making people want to give as much as possible to very rich people, especially tax money, while making them hate poor people.

Those that object or even try to point out these everyday workings are usually shouted down by much of the populace and ridiculed by the media.

For being such a putatively freedom loving people, it's amazing how easily led by the leash many of them are.

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ORIGINAL: thishereboi

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

Healthcare costs in Western countries average about 7-8% of GDP, excepting the USA where it's about 15%. Most Western countries have universal health schemes where it seems about a third of Americans have no healthcare coverage.

I have never been able to understand why Americans like paying twice as much as comparable countries for a lot less healthcare. Perhaps someone could enlighten me

Do you have a link to the article that said a third of americans have no healthcare coverage? I looked and the highest figure I found was 15%.  Perhaps you got it from the same bull shit source that told you americans like playing high costs for coverage. [8|] No wonder you're so confused.

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

Healthcare costs in Western countries average about 7-8% of GDP, excepting the USA where it's about 15%. Most Western countries have universal health schemes where it seems about a third of Americans have no healthcare coverage.

I have never been able to understand why Americans like paying twice as much as comparable countries for a lot less healthcare. Perhaps someone could enlighten me

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

Healthcare costs in Western countries average about 7-8% of GDP, excepting the USA where it's about 15%. Most Western countries have universal health schemes where it seems about a third of Americans have no healthcare coverage.

I have never been able to understand why Americans like paying twice as much as comparable countries for a lot less healthcare. Perhaps someone could enlighten me

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ORIGINAL: DomYngBlk

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ORIGINAL: Edwynn
... As just one example, Monsanto has one of their sharks well in place at the FDA and USDA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_R._Taylor  and essentially writing a proposed law that will virtually eliminate naturally grown food.   http://farmwars.info/?p=594

How better else to keep people under the corporate thumb than to stop seed production on family farms....

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ORIGINAL: thishereboi

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

Healthcare costs in Western countries average about 7-8% of GDP, excepting the USA where it's about 15%. Most Western countries have universal health schemes where it seems about a third of Americans have no healthcare coverage.

I have never been able to understand why Americans like paying twice as much as comparable countries for a lot less healthcare. Perhaps someone could enlighten me

Do you have a link to the article that said a third of americans have no healthcare coverage? I looked and the highest figure I found was 15%.  Perhaps you got it from the same bull shit source that told you americans like playing high costs for coverage. [8|] No wonder you're so confused.

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

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ORIGINAL: thishereboi

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

Healthcare costs in Western countries average about 7-8% of GDP, excepting the USA where it's about 15%. Most Western countries have universal health schemes where it seems about a third of Americans have no healthcare coverage.

I have never been able to understand why Americans like paying twice as much as comparable countries for a lot less healthcare. Perhaps someone could enlighten me

Do you have a link to the article that said a third of americans have no healthcare coverage? I looked and the highest figure I found was 15%.  Perhaps you got it from the same bull shit source that told you americans like playing high costs for coverage. [8|] No wonder you're so confused.

According to wiki:
"At least 15.3% of the population is completely uninsured,[1][2][3] and a substantial additional portion of the population (35%) is "underinsured", or not able to cover the costs of their medical needs.[4][5]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States

So it seems my original post understated the problem and approx 50% of Americans are "not able to cover the costs of their medical needs". Apologies for understating the extent of the lack of medical coverage in the US.