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JD59 · 09-01-2009, 11:05 AM

I didn't know that Japan has a National Health System and others do at link below,

FRONTLINE: sick around the world: five capitalist democracies & how they do it | PBS

KevK · 09-01-2009, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by John1960

I didn't know that Japan has a National Health System and others do at link below,

FRONTLINE: sick around the world: five capitalist democracies & how they do it | PBS

Every industrialized nation (first world) and many agri nations (third world) have some form of National Health. Many have single payer plans (UK and Canada) while others have a public-private plan. This is the only country that has no public plan.

ovcatto · 09-01-2009, 11:16 AM

antibes · 09-01-2009, 11:19 AM

Well, at least this country has provided UHC to Iraq, Afghanistan, and to terrorists in Guantamo Bay!

Would be greater if the consideration was the citizens of this country first and foremost...

Dopo · 09-01-2009, 11:31 AM

That map is not accurate,
Venezuela has have Univeral Health Care for decades.

I'll tell you the truth, it used to be REALLY crappy.
The way republicans think that it would be.

Hugo Chavez has invested a .......... lot of money in it.
In few words, Chavez worked out a deal with Cuba to hire 20,000 cuban doctors and send them to mobile hospitals in poor neighborhoods in Venezuela to provide free health care.
Green Left - VENEZUELA: Venezuela's popular health care system makes gains

Besides that... students do internships with those doctors.

Politico · 09-01-2009, 11:32 AM

Wow. That map really puts it in perspective, doesn't it?

Regarding access to healthcare, the US is on par with Africa, a small portion of South America, most of Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

Pathetic.

Katarina Witt · 09-01-2009, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by John1960

I didn't know that Japan has a National Health System and others do at link below,

FRONTLINE: sick around the world: five capitalist democracies & how they do it | PBS

I think this is a big problem, e.g. so many people don't know how many countries DO have some form of UHC. Japan has often been held up as a role model for the US.

Quick Enough · 09-01-2009, 02:57 PM

If it is so good in other countries, which country are you going to move to?

Katarina Witt · 09-01-2009, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Quick Enough

If it is so good in other countries, which country are you going to move to?

Can't we all work on making our own country better?

baxendale · 09-02-2009, 07:41 AM

As far as the map goes, I'm pretty sure that India has government run hospitals that are free. So....now we're behind India as well.