There are many of Stossel's reports that I disagree with. Many of his conclusions are based on gathering information and stats that are not 100% available. One example is discrimination of women in the workforce. It still exists. The problem is that it goes unreported and unproven. That same discrimination exists against races and ethnicities as well. If you don't experience it or see it, then you think it doesn't exist, but it does. However, I agree with his report, especially this:


Many things that cause premature death have nothing do with medical care. We have far more fatal transportation accidents than other countries. That's not a health-care problem.

Similarly, our homicide rate is 10 times higher than in the U.K., eight times higher than in France, and five times greater than in Canada.

When you adjust for these "fatal injury" rates, U.S. life expectancy is actually higher than in nearly every other industrialized nation.


Still, the problem in the U.S. is not that we don't have excellent healthcare, we do. It is that many Americans cannot afford the healthcare that is available. There are many Americans that make too much money for medicaid but not enough to pay for health insurance for a family. That is the real problem in this country as I see it. Everyone is guaranteed emergency medical care and will receive it whether or not they can pay. However, they can go broke and in debt for the remainder of their lives trying to pay the bill afterwards.





>>I am for universal health care in this country. However, Canada's situation concerns me. I have read many stories about Canadians flying to the U.S. for medical treatment as well as the alarming number of Canadian surgeons moving to the U.S. to practice here.
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>>Here are some:
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>>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/20/health/main681801.shtml?cmp=EM8705
>>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2007/08/22/abc-glosses-over-fact-canadian-parents-flee-their-country-give-birth
>>http://www.wockhardthospitals.net/news/canadian-patients.asp
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>>Whose system really does work? I am not looking to start an argument about the Canadian health care system, or the one here, or even any in the EU. I'm looking for a system that really works. The military healthcare system works, but it is too expensive to become a model for the U.S.
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>Teh CBS piece states that...
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>The World Health Organization in 2000 ranked France's health system as the best,
>followed by Italy, Spain, Oman and Australia. Canada came in 30th and the
>United States 37th.
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>http://mattjohnston.blogspot.com/2007/08/john-stossel-on-americas-ranking-in.html
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>According to John Stossel The way they measure is by looking at life expectancy.
>This could include homocide and car accidents per capita.
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>To be fair there is a counter arguement to Stossel's view.