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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Sun Jan 31, 2016, 12:58 PM Jan 2016

Shouldn't we be LEADING the world?

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Shouldn't we be LEADING the world? (Original Post) Playinghardball Jan 2016 OP

Interesting... malthaussen Jan 2016 #1

Of OECD countries, the U.S., Mexico, and Turkey lack universal care. DirkGently Jan 2016 #2

malthaussen

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1. Interesting...

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Sun Jan 31, 2016, 01:52 PM

Jan 2016

... that aside from the U.S., the countries conspicuously missing from that list are all the former Communist Bloc satellites. What was that again about socialism?

-- Mal

DirkGently

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2. Of OECD countries, the U.S., Mexico, and Turkey lack universal care.

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Sun Jan 31, 2016, 02:06 PM

Jan 2016

Among the 34 OECD countries, only Mexico, Turkey, and the United States do not have universal health care coverage. Almost 50 million Americans did not have health insurance in 2010 - 16.3 percent of the population. The percentage of uninsured individuals varies greatly on a state-by-state basis -- Texas has the highest proportion of uninsured residents, at 24.6 percent. Massachusetts has the lowest, at 5.6 percent. Generally, states in the Northeast, Midwest, and Pacific Northwest have a greater share of insured residents than states in the South and Southwest.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/issue-brief-health-care/

No knock on Mexico or Turkey, but is this the company "The Greatest Country in the World" should be in as far as healthcare policy?

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