On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 5:56 PM spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> *> when I was on the ancient Kurzweil forum *(when it was a forum) I was > corrected by a Dutch guy who was a software engineer from there, who > corrected me, when I questioned why he mentioned that he had his companies > health insurance. Why he even needed that, since even I knew that The > Netherlands has public medicine for decades, already?? He told me, "My > company cares about their employees sick days and health that they paid for > us not get sick." When I asked him what the mean't I was told me, "We don't > have to wait to see a doctor." * Well, everybody in the USA has to wait to see a doctor too, and many have to wait quite literally forever because they can not afford to see a doctor at all. *> Let us let them have the last word, unless you're afraid of hearing > "whataboudism" which is a way of refusing to compare and contrast, and thus > deliberately avoid facts that go against one's ideology.* OK let me give you some facts, that can cut through all the internal complications and just illustrates the inputs and the outputs: The life expectancy of a person in the Netherlands in 2019 was 82.01 years. The life expectancy of a person in the USA in 2019 was 78.79 years. The per capita healthcare costs in the Netherlands in 2019 was $5,335. The per capita healthcare costs in the USA in 2019 was $12,530. Unless you deliberately avoid these facts because they go against your ideology only one conclusion is possible, the healthcare system in the USA is *DRAMATICALLY* more inefficient than the healthcare system in the Netherlands. For decades the Democrats have tried to improve the ridiculous healthcare system in the USA and for decades the Antidemocrats have opposed all attempts to do so. And the Antidemocrats won. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> pey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1w2dR6dAxHN2DWjARQu7LhaaG9G3m3VcrYuKOKean9ZA%40mail.gmail.com.
