"Ken Davey" > wrote in
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> Third world health care? - bring it on!
Wolfie is under the mistaken impression that fiction is reality. The
whole thing about his Third World crapola is based on misinformation
and innuendo from the dexter masturbators he hangs out with. It stems
from a comment made in passing in an editorial in the Wall Street
Journal about ten years ago expressing distaste with a particular
Canadian policy by saying that Canada was a (and I quote) "honorary
member of the Third World". Strangely enough, that was a reaction to
uncontrolled spending by the Mulroney government, a conservative
government.
http://www.newswire.ca/fr/releases/a.../11/c3861.html
So, what started out as mere bilious invective on the part of a
corporate arsewipe rag has now been transformed without any attempt to
actually check any facts related to this into a "fack" by the US right-
wingers...well the stupid ones anyway.
The sad fact is that you get good health care in Cuba at a less
burdensome price to the state and you get somewhat better results.
Here are the numbers from the WHO:
Cuba: Total population: 11,271,000
GDP per capita (Intl $, 2001): 3,168
Life expectancy at birth m/f (years): 75.0/79.3
Healthy life expectancy at birth m/f (years): 67.1/69.5
Child mortality m/f (per 1000): 8/7
Adult mortality m/f (per 1000): 138/89
Total health expenditure per capita (Intl $, 2001): 229
Total health expenditure as % of GDP (2001): 7.2
US: Total population: 291,038,000
GDP per capita (Intl $, 2001): 35,182
Life expectancy at birth m/f (years): 74.6/79.8
Healthy life expectancy at birth m/f (years): 67.2/71.3
Child mortality m/f (per 1000): 9/7
Adult mortality m/f (per 1000): 140/83
Total health expenditure per capita (Intl $, 2001): 4,887
Total health expenditure as % of GDP (2001): 13.9
Canada: Total population: 31,271,000
GDP per capita (Intl $, 2001): 29,235
Life expectancy at birth m/f (years): 77.2/82.3
Healthy life expectancy at birth m/f (years): 70.1/74.0
Child mortality m/f (per 1000): 6/5
Adult mortality m/f (per 1000): 95/58
Total health expenditure per capita (Intl $, 2001): 2,792
Total health expenditure as % of GDP (2001): 9.5
I also offer Canada by way of comparison. I would say that overall,
healthcare is as efficient in Cuba as it is in the US (45 year-old
embargo notwithstanding) and that health care is better in Canada than
in the US. Life expectancy is higher, child mortality is lower, total
health expenditures per capita are half the cost of the US (we don't
have to support 200 different administrations). GDP per capita in Cuba
is 1/10th that of the US and in Canada almost the same.
The WHO ranking of world healthcare systems (2000):
1 France
2 Italy
3 San Marino
4 Andorra
5 Malta
6 Singapore
7 Spain
8 Oman
9 Austria
10 Japan
11 Norway
12 Portugal
13 Monaco
14 Greece
15 Iceland
16 Luxembourg
17 Netherlands
18 United Kingdom
19 Ireland
20 Switzerland
21 Belgium
22 Colombia
23 Sweden
24 Cyprus
25 Germany
26 Saudi Arabia
27 United Arab Emirates
28 Israel
29 Morocco
30 ---> Canada
31 Finland
32 Australia
33 Chile
34 Denmark
35 Dominica
36 Costa Rica
37 ---> United States of America
38 Slovenia
39 ---> Cuba
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188 Democratic Republic of the Congo
189 Central African Republic
190 Myanmar
I'd say the US has a long way to go to claim to be the best. In fact,
it would have to catch up to just about every "Third World" nation that
Wolfie can think of in his bestest ever self-congratulatory (emphasis
on the tory) wet dream.
Now, just watch the dexters claim this is all lies :-) What they fail
to realize is that they're the new stand-up comics. Let's all have a
good belly laugh at their expense ;-)
--
German to Picasso in front of Guernica: Did you do this?
Picasso to German in front of Guernica: No, it was you.