Health care is good in this country...Gertrude Baines, world's oldest person, dies at 115

[J Arp]

Not bad looking for 115. Imagine everything she has seen...both world wars, great depression, Korean war, Vietnam, invention/discovery of penicillin, moon landing, reunification of Germany...
She likely rode in a horse drawn carriage when she was young and lived to see sun powered concept automobiles.

I hope to simply live half as long.

[meson]

Originally Posted by bentlebee

She died at the age of 115 years old..RIP!

If the health care was so bad how did she became the olest living person?

How much more proof?

What a silly argument, I had an aunt who died at 99 years of age.....she never saw a doctor until she was in her late 80s.

[burdell]

Originally Posted by bentlebee

She died at the age of 115 years old..RIP!

If the health care was so bad how did she became the olest living person?

How much more proof?

How about some proof that puts our infant mortality rate on par with other industrialized nations?

Barring that, how about a statistically significant sample size?

Whatta ya got?

[malamute]

Originally Posted by meson

What a silly argument, I had an aunt who died at 99 years of age.....she never saw a doctor until she was in her late 80s.

It's not a silly argument at all. Most of our real "health care" is free and it means eating right, exercising enough, staying away from drugs and too much alcohol.

The problem is people don't want to do anything for themselves. They want to eat until they're seriously obese and then have the government fix it with free (taxpayer paid of course) bariatric surgeries.

Almost all our major health care costs could be lowered by people having better health habits.