Universal Healthcare map

[bluefrog]

Universal Healthcare map

This map had a few surprises for me.

China and North Korea have no universal health care. Iraq and Afghanistan both have universal health care funded by the U.S.

 

[MARIS61]

Iraq and Afghanistan both have universal health care funded by the U.S.

Since we've injured and maimed close to a million innocent people there, I have no problem with that.

I would like to see the cost come out of the Department of Defense though, since they are the cause.

To be fairer, Halliburton should pick up the tab since they are the ones getting obscenely rich from this travesty.

 

[MARIS61]

Looks like just about everyone except COMMUNISTS, disfunctional governments ruling small jungle countries by force, and the US has universal healthcare, or is in the process of implementing it.

Kinda destroys the absurd arguements the Repugnants have latched onto.

 

[speeds]

So if every first world nation jumped off a bridge...

 

[Chutney]

So if every first world nation jumped off a bridge...

They can afford to jump off. Their rehab is covered by the government.

 

[speeds]

They can afford to jump off. Their rehab is covered by the government.

Damn, I was hoping it would take more than one response for someone to get it. Well done.

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

America rocks!

 

[bluefrog]

Looks like just about everyone except COMMUNISTS, disfunctional governments ruling small jungle countries by force, and the US has universal healthcare, or is in the process of implementing it.

Well Cuba has universal health care, but I just assumed that communist governments would automatically provide health care for everyone.

It's ironic to think that war funding could be simultaneously providing health care for terrorists and paying for the weapons that injure them.

 

[BrianFromWA]

Someone must've messed up royally. We're babykillers, not baby-wounders-then-fixers. That's taking profit straight off the bottom line!!

 

[bluefrog]

Someone must've messed up royally. We're babykillers, not baby-wounders-then-fixers.

Wrong war

 

[PapaG]

Well Cuba has universal health care, but I just assumed that communist governments would automatically provide health care for everyone.

It's ironic to think that war funding could be simultaneously providing health care for terrorists and paying for the weapons that injure them.

Completely sanitized as well. I assume you've traveled to a Cuban hospital.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

To be fairer, Halliburton should pick up the tab since they are the ones getting obscenely rich from this travesty.

That's a company that should be shut down. They've stolen billions from the US Gov and screwed things up badly in Iraq.

 

[Eastoff]

That's a company that should be shut down. They've stolen billions from the US Gov and screwed things up badly in Iraq.

I believe they changed their name and broke things up a little

 

[bluefrog]

Well Cuba has universal health care, but I just assumed that communist governments would automatically provide health care for everyone.

Completely sanitized as well. I assume you've traveled to a Cuban hospital.

What? Have you been to a Cuban hospital?

Did you read the thread? I wasn't praising Cuban health care, I was just saying it was the only communist country with universal health care. I was replying to this:

Looks like just about everyone except COMMUNISTS, disfunctional governments ruling small jungle countries by force, and the US has universal healthcare, or is in the process of implementing it.

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

I'd actually support universal healthcare if the payment of it was based on a universal tax rate (or consumption tax).

 

[blazerboy30]

The country that has managed to fend off converting to universal healthcare has the largest GDP in the world, by a factor of ~3.

 

[mook]

The country that has managed to fend off converting to universal healthcare has the largest GDP in the world, by a factor of ~3.

Actually, we're 15th if you go by Per Capita.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=gdp+per+capita
Most of the countries above us have *gasp* universal health care.

Of course, all of those countries are a lot smaller. Still, though, you look at the other large countries in the vicinity of the US and there certainly isn't a factor of ~3 difference.

Anyway, I've always felt GDP is kind of an overrated statistic. The point of our government isn't to allow us as individuals to better pursue Live, Liberty and Property, although that was the original wording. Thomas Jefferson made a critical edit, and I think it was a good one.

In other news, WolframAlpha rocks.

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

Yeah, by "alot smaller", we're talking about smaller than Florida small? Per capita GDP is a bit more overrated than GDP....the total size and scope of the US is enormous and when we are comparing statistics of universal healthcare coverage, many people are using countries that are smaller in population than a single state in the union.