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Re: Describe the user above you with 3-5 Words! Wrong, our healthcare is ridiculous. We spend more of our GDP on healthcare than any other country, and thought that making it bigger was somehow a good idea. Since they're doing such a bang up job of keeping us all sick, weak, and drug addled, what better way is there for us to repay them than to give them more money that they don't deserve? Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

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Started the national superiority argument. It'd be wrong to assume we have a system - or more correctly, that we had a system. Americans just spend a lot on healthcare, presumably because it's not socialized like it is in most other developed nations. US gasoline is very cheap compared with most of the world because we have subsidized gasoline to keep it cheap for public consumption. Just a matter of priorities. Still, there are a lot of people here who aren't on healthcare and they get thrown into studies of national health, so my guess is the data's a bit skewed.

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corrects me often how can it be given the amount of money spent on it then that America's healthcare system rates among the worst of any developed nation?
Because the American mentality is all about ease and laziness. In the case of healthcare, most people opt for drugs or surgery rather than taking the time and effort to work on their diet, exercise, and personal well being. Lobbyists for big pharmaceutical companies have many people in the government in their pockets, as do the big health insurance providers and hospitals, and there is a monopoly on the system with lots of price fixing (look up Charge Masters) and gouging. We as a nation don't want to fix our problems practically, we want to take the easy route, and the entire healthcare system takes advantage of this fact to steal our money.
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Given cultural and economic approach. I would not argue that the American mentality is for laziness, strictly speaking - it's more for money. Our economy has often been healthy in the past and is still comparatively impressive - we've still got a higher GDP per capita than Sweden or the UK. In any event, the spirit of enterprise may well have convinced people that anything can be got with money. As a result, the trend is toward laziness because usually we can just pay for something to go away. Of course, the 'system' is vulnerable because it's dependent on the wheeler-dealing of a couple of educated and ambitious people, but as long as we've got productive immigrants who are thankful to be in the country we won't have any really huge problems. It'll go away once the nation hits a catastrophe and then it'll arise again. It's the complacency of a population that doesn't have to fight for survival.

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Re: Describe the user above you with 3-5 Words! More optimistic than I am. Our GDP may be higher than those countries, but so is our wealth disparity. As the divide grows larger, more money is held by the richest of the rich, and we're the ones that are too dumb to realize that we're giving it to them for nothing. Recent studies have shown that Americans are living longer, but with more sickness, pain, and depression, more time to bleed us dry as we suffer. We keep supporting the systems that rape us though, we keep electing the same corrupt politicians, shopping at the same Walmart stores, going to the same doctors that don't heal us, buying the same factory food that is void of nutritional value, but we buy into it because we want to keep watching what those Kardashians and New Jersey douches are up to on TV. If we actually thought about this stuff and did something about it, we would be forces to stop worrying about who is taking our guns away, who is allowed to get married, what our favorite celebrities are up to, or what god our neighbor may worship, and that stuff is just far too important to give up for things like health, happiness, and prosperity. :banghead: Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

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