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Originally Posted by Zuts
hmm, i think you are confusing the quality of health care and peoples access to it. In terms of quality as in world class i would think the US of A has the absolute best medical system in the world.
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No it is not - this is proven by its standing in global terms wrt to health outcomes. Google it and see for yourself.
The key indicators are infant mortality rate and life expectancy at birth.
See table 5 in
http://www.econ.duke.edu/Econ/Facult...ty_aug2008.pdf
See
http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?t=0&v=29&l=en
USA is ranked very poorly. Australia (198th ... a high rank is better in this table) is ahead of the USA (178th).
USA is not flash wrt to life expectancy at birth (Australia is 11th , USA is 45th).
Despite the health system in the USA being the most expensive per head. More expensive is not necessarily higher quality when it comes to national health systems.. Go figure .... at that point , I'll leave you to do your own homework .