Michel Boucher > wrote:!

PLEASE PUT ME BACK IN YOUR KILLFILE YOU MOOSE ****ING CANUCK.

THAT WAY I DON'T HAVE TO LISTEN TO YOUR INANE DRIVEL!

> "Ken Davey" > wrote in
> :
>
> > 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:

NOBODY GIVES A RAT'S ASS WHAT THE WHO THINKS. THEY ARE PART OF THE BLAME
AMERICA CROWD. THE REST OF THE WORLD NEEDS TO TAKE A GOOD HARD LOOK IN
THE MIRROR!
>
> 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
> ---
> 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 ;-)