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bubba21 year, 6 months ago
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Actually, health care in the United States is NOT "the best in the world".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the...
he World Health Organization in 2000 ranked the U.S. health care system first in both responsiveness and expenditure, but 37th in overall performance and 72nd by overall level of health (among 191 member nations included in the study). The WHO study has been criticized both for its methodology and for a lack of correlation with user satisfaction ratings.
The CIA World Factbook ranked the United States 41st in the world for lowest infant mortality rate and 45th for highest total life expectancy. A recent study found that between 1997 and 2003, preventable deaths declined more slowly in the United States than in 18 other industrialized nations.
The U.S. is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not have a universal health care system.
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