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France: 'Best' Health Care?
On Sep 30, 10:14*am, Bill wrote:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 03:42:03 -0700 (PDT), "PJ O'D" wrote: On Sep 29, 8:30 pm, Bill wrote: On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:29:10 -0700 (PDT), "PJ O'D" All Americans over age 65 and disabled Americans qualify for Medicare where the US government pays health providers direct for health care of the elderly and disabled. Goodness PJ, you really are just a liar. Medicare (United States) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Medicare is a national social insurance program, administered by the U.S. federal government since 1965, that guarantees access to health insurance for Americans ages 65 and older and younger people with disabilities as well as people with end stage renal disease. As a social insurance program, Medicare spreads the financial risk associated with illness across society to protect everyone, Oh shut up you buffoon, *we all know US free medical care is neither free nor terribly good. If it was the USA would have higher life expectancy figures than Europe, *and it doesn't... You're simply wrong. From the age of 66, life expectancy for both males and females is better in the US than in Europe... And it never looks back. This is in fact, a direct reflection on the quality of healthcare, as it focuses in on the years were most people require medical services and factors out many other causes of death not associated with quality healthcare. jay |
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France: 'Best' Health Care?
"PJ O'D" wrote in message ... On Sep 30, 7:24 pm, Bill wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:57:04 -0700 (PDT), "PJ O'D" wrote: On Sep 30, 4:11 pm, Bill wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:41:28 -0700 (PDT), "PJ O'D" wrote: On Sep 30, 1:14 pm, Bill wrote: If it was the USA would have higher life expectancy figures than Europe, and it doesn't... Backing out homicides and death from fatal accidents for all countries in a comparison then indicates the US has the highest overall life expectancies in the world. Cite please. Just google: "The myth of Americans' poor life expectancy" You made the claim, you get to produce the statistics son. Now **** or get off the pot... Just another computer illiterate on usenet who can't get it together to do a simple google search. I figured as much. It's right he http://tinyurl.com/99mkmf4 But 1999 was almost 14 years ago! -- JohnT |
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France: 'Best' Health Care?
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:19:00 -0700 (PDT), Go Fig
wrote: On Sep 30, 10:14*am, Bill wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 03:42:03 -0700 (PDT), "PJ O'D" wrote: On Sep 29, 8:30 pm, Bill wrote: On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:29:10 -0700 (PDT), "PJ O'D" All Americans over age 65 and disabled Americans qualify for Medicare where the US government pays health providers direct for health care of the elderly and disabled. Goodness PJ, you really are just a liar. Medicare (United States) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Medicare is a national social insurance program, administered by the U.S. federal government since 1965, that guarantees access to health insurance for Americans ages 65 and older and younger people with disabilities as well as people with end stage renal disease. As a social insurance program, Medicare spreads the financial risk associated with illness across society to protect everyone, Oh shut up you buffoon, *we all know US free medical care is neither free nor terribly good. If it was the USA would have higher life expectancy figures than Europe, *and it doesn't... You're simply wrong. From the age of 66, life expectancy for both males and females is better in the US than in Europe... And it never looks back. This is in fact, a direct reflection on the quality of healthcare, as it focuses in on the years were most people require medical services and factors out many other causes of death not associated with quality healthcare. So why does the CIA fact book say I'm right? |
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France: 'Best' Health Care?
PJ O'D wrote: On Sep 30, 5:51 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote: PJ O'D wrote: On Sep 29, 3:24 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote: PJ O'D wrote: On Sep 29, 2:56 am, Earl Evleth wrote: Lung translants are a common treatment in the US for Evleth's unfortunate disease of pulmonary fibrosis. snip With Evleth political ideology even supercedes the instinct for survival. FYI, the USA is the ONLY "developed" country in the world that does not regard universal health care as a right for all citizens, not a privilege for the wealthy. Rubbish. You are just broadcasting your gullibility by swallowing the anti American bias that infests Usenet. Well, I AM an American, so I reserve the right to criticize what I perceive as the growing inequities in our alleged "democracy". All Americans over age 65 and disabled Americans qualify for Medicare where the US government pays health providers direct for health care of the elderly and disabled. EXCUSE ME!!!!! The US government isn't "paying" for ANYTHING - Medicare represents payroll tax money we (and our employers) paid into a trust fund for anticipated medical expenses, post retirement! Every developed nation except the US covers ALL its citizens under a similar arrangement. (I find it interesting that most of the criticisms of "universal" medical care that I see come from people who have no first-hand experience of it, whereas my internet friends in countries that provide it seem perfectly happy to have it.) You are living in a lala land of your own imagined Socialist utopia, lady. Here is what wikipedia tells you about the reality of the finances of medica "wikipedia Medicare (US)... ....And, as is too frequently the case, Wikipedia (being largely written by people with insufficient knowledge) is mistaken! |
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France: 'Best' Health Care?
On Oct 1, 4:34*pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote: PJ O'D wrote: All Americans over age 65 and disabled Americans *qualify for Medicare where the US government pays health providers direct for health care of the elderly and disabled. EXCUSE ME!!!!! *The US government isn't "paying" for ANYTHING - Medicare represents payroll tax money we (and our employers) paid into a trust fund for anticipated medical expenses, post retirement! *. You are living in a lala land of your own imagined Socialist utopia, lady. Here is what wikipedia tells you about the reality of the finances of medica "wikipedia Medicare (US)... ...Unfunded obligation Medicare’s unfunded obligation is the total amount of money that would have to be set aside today such that the principal and interest would cover the gap between projected Part A revenues and spending over a given timeframe. As of 2009, Medicare’s unfunded obligation over an infinite timeframe was $36 trillion....". ...And, as is too frequently the case, Wikipedia (being largely written by people with insufficient knowledge) is mistaken! Lady, wiki is merely reporting the governmant's own internal figures reported in: 2011 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARDS OF TRUSTEES OF THE FEDERAL HOSPITAL INSURANCE AND FEDERAL SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL INSURANCE TRUST FUNDS https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statist...ads/tr2011.pdf excerpt page 228 ".. the present value of the additional resources that would be needed to meet projected expenditures, at current-law levels for the three programs combined, is $33.8 trillion...." Lady, $33.8 trill of unfunded government obligations is $33,800,000,000,000.00. The government's corporate police, The Securities Exchange Commisiion, would demand that a public corporation declare immediate bancrupcy if it so reported an UNFUNDED obligation of this magnitude in its annual report. |
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