Obama vs. Bill O'Reilly

[30x90]

Every other industrialized nation in the world has national health insurance, and they pay HALF per capita what we pay for healthcare.

I'd like to see your research and sources for that claim.

Spending per person (most recent) by country

The World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems

We are #1 in per capita spending but 37th in WHO rankings

Other notable "horrible socialist countries" rank in per capita spending and rank of health care systems according to WHO:

France: 8th per capita spending; 1st in WHO rankings
Canada: 14th per capita spending; 30th in WHO rankings
Spain: 23rd per capita spending; 7th in WHO rankings

If you put it baseball terms.

France is the Yankees (spend alot but have the best)
Canada is the Detroit Tigers (Spend a good chunk but never good enough)
Spain is the Tampa Bay Rays or Minnesota Twins (spend very little yet very good teams(or healthcare))

The USA is like the Mets, spend a ton of money yet have the worst team (or healthcare system).

And per capita means "per head" meaning from the richest person to the poorest person, on average, we pay way more than every other country. The healthcare system needs to be change.

Thanks for the excellent links. Very informative.

 

[masquerade]

If him not wearing a tie really bothered you: you need to get a life, or better yet find legit things to blast him about (they're there). Seriously.

PS:

I do have a life. A busy one in fact.
Certainly not enough time to justify my post any further, but enough time to tell you to take your suggestions and shove them up your ass.

 

[ginscpy]

People emerging from a cave after 5 years - watching the interview- would probably think the guy on the right of the screen was the president.

 

[Defiant1]

Whether you liked the interview or not you have to give O'Reilly props for having the stomach to be in the same room with the Chief POS community organizer.

 

[MarcATL]

If him not wearing a tie really bothered you: you need to get a life, or better yet find legit things to blast him about (they're there). Seriously.

PS:

I do have a life. A busy one in fact.
Certainly not enough time to justify my post any further, but enough time to tell you to take your suggestions and shove them up your ass.

I think the correct term for what just happened to you is "pwned."

 

[Chris]

Yes. and the French take over half of your paycheck in order to do it.

Not really.

The French use cost saving techniques that we should adopt. They limit liability, their medical schools are much cheapers than ours, so they have many more doctors per capita. More doctors equals cheaper prices for services. Bigger supply, cheaper prices...simple economics. They negotiate costs for the patients, so they don't pay the ridiculous drug prices we do. And they live longer than we do on average. Their system works well.

We could learn a lot by studing what works in other countries.

You have never talked to someone who lives there have you? They are socialists and the government does take a little over half of their pay checks in order to pay for the social programs.

I have friends who live in France, and they love it. I also have friends in Canada who love their healthcare system.

You do realize that the police department is socialist, and the fire department is socialist, and the military is socialist, and the highway department is socialist, and our schools are socialist, right?