Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Some critics have said America has the best health care in the world ...
Part of President Bush's State of the Union Address I wanted to agree with completely was "By keeping costs under control, expanding access, and helping more Americans afford coverage, we will preserve the system of private medicine that makes America's health care the best in the world."
I certainly agree that we should deal with out-of-control health care costs and expand access, but if America already has the "best" health care in the world, how can it be that the CIA Factbook ranks the following 28 nations as having both a lower infant mortality rate than the US and a longer life expectancy at birth than the US?
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Some critics have said a government-run health care system is the wrong prescription. This particular criticism is hard to explain to our friends in Britain, Australia, Japan, Andorra, Macau, Finland, Italy, Spain, Singapore, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Canada, the Netherlands (Applause) ... Norway, Iceland, and the 17 other countries where socialized medicine provides longer life-expectancies (Applause), and the 18 other countries where state run heath systems ensure a lower infant mortality rate than we enjoy. (Long Applause.)
// posted by Erik @ 1/21/2004 12:51:00 AM
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