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Originally posted by Allenb83
If you think Obama passed healthcare reform for the benefit of the "nations needs" then your dreaming.
The USA pays twice as much yet lags behind other wealthy nations in such measures as infant mortality and life expectancy. Currently, the USA has a higher infant mortality rate than most of the world's industrialized nations.[nb 1][6] In the United States life expectancy is 42nd in the world, after some other industrialized nations, lagging the other nations of the G5 (Japan, France, Germany, UK, USA) and just after Chile (35th) and Cuba (37th).[7]
Life expectancy at birth in the USA, 78.49, is 50th in the world, below most developed nations and some developing nations. Monaco is first with 89.68. Angola is last with 31.88. US statistics are below the average life expectancy for the European Union.[8][9] The World Health Organization (WHO), in 2000, ranked the U.S. health care system as the highest in cost, first in responsiveness, 37th in overall performance, and 72nd by overall level of health (among 191 member nations included in the study).[10][11] The Commonwealth Fund ranked the United States last in the quality of health care among similar countries,[12] and notes U.S. care costs the most.[13]
Originally posted by Allenb83
What the nation needs right now is a whole heck of a lot less government, not more of it!
Originally posted by Allenb83
You lean Obama, your going to fall on your face. Nobody should be made to do something through an act of force in this country, and that includes paying taxes for not supporting socialist services.