BlackhawksFan, don't you think legislation that will, largely, pay for itself over the next decade is far less likely to NOT collapse the economy than, say, two foreign wars (one of them illegal, both of them never "on the books" until the far-more-honest Obama Administration decided that a trillion dollars a year in defecit spending SHOULD factor into the equation?
The NEJM poll is faulty and also out-dated. The AMA supports the healthcare overhaul bill, because they know - unlike those of you who get your "news" from Fox and the lying Chickenhawk Five - that a) Americans will wind up paying LESS...yes, that's right...LESS!!! per person on healthcare than they currently are, and b) because they know the system is broken.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/73249-ama-endorses-senate-health-bill
And still, NO ONE ADDRESSES THE ISSUE OF THE FUCKING GOP DEBT- AND DEFECIT- SPENDING via strongarming and reconciliation for the first six years of the Dubbya Administration. No one. I didn't fucking think so.
In a Canadian National Population Health Survey of 17,276 Canadian residents, it was reported that only 0.5% sought medical care in the U.S. in the previous year. Of these, less than a quarter had traveled to the U.S. expressly to get that care.
http://dsp-psd.communication.gc.ca/Collection/Statcan/82F0068X/about_e.pdf
To a much greater extent, Americans purchase prescription drugs from Canada, either over the Internet or by traveling there to buy them in person, because prescription drug prices in Canada are substantially lower than prescription drug prices in the United States; this cross-border purchasing has been estimated at $1 billion annually.
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/170/6/945?etoc
Will this one finally get you all to STFU and stop cherry-picking factoids and lies?
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/46/33/38979719.pdf
NOTE THE FOLLOWING: Canadians will, on average...
* Have 1.6 years longer life expectancy than Americans;
* Have a 1.7% LOWER infant mortality rate than Americans;
* Have approximately the same number of physicians per 100,000 population and 1.9 more nurses than Americans;
* Per capita, expend $3,395 LESS PER CAPITA in healthcare than Americans (the U.S. by the way, has more than TWICE the average cost per capita than ANY OTHER INDUSTRIALIZED NATION IN THE WORLD);
* Have only 10.1% OF THE CANADIAN GDP SPENT ON THEIR HEALTHCARE, VERSUS 16.0% FOR AMERICANS;
* Accomplish ALL THIS with the government only investing 1% more of the annual government revenue on healthcare;
* And yet, still have 35% MORE OF THEIR HEALTHCARE COSTS PAID FOR BY THE GOVERNMENT.
So, there you have it, Dave, and all you other dittohead / Furious Five tree-barkers. Enough already.
MORE AMERICANS go to Canada for healthcare than vise versa. Statistically, it's proven the Canadian system is better than the U.S. system.
So, STFU! Move along! YET ANOTHER issue the GOP is DEAD FUCKING WRONG on!
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