The 50 most developed countries in the world and Universal Healthcare.

[U2Edge]

POPULATION
01. 1.2 million
02. 9.4 million
03. 2.6 million
04. 1.5 million
05. 326 million


Today we learned just how stupid the average dopey leftist is.

So you’re saying that Merruca can’t do it because of the size of the population?

JAPAN: population 127 MILLION! Universal Healthcare for all its citizens!

The Japanese public debt exceeded one quadrillion yen or about US$10.46 trillion in 2013, more than twice the country's annual gross domestic product.

Japan has one of the highest life expectancy's in the world. Very little poverty, no gun violence. They are living well and living it up.

They're living well but maybe just from a material point of view. It seems that unhappiness seems to be a sad reality in Japan. As far as I know Japan has one of the highest suicide rate in the world

It also has one of the highest life expectancy rates in the world too. So there are a lot of happy and content people in Japan. Okinawa, and Island apart of Japan, has the highest number of people reaching age 100 in the world.

 

[Oddball]

“Why does the United States, the wealthiest country in the world and the 3rd wealthiest per captia country, still not provide Universal Healthcare for its citizens?”

Because conservatives have successfully propagated the lie that in addition to being ‘too expensive,’ providing all Americans access to affordable healthcare will ‘destroy capitalism’ and make America ‘socialist’ – when in fact nothing could be further from the truth.

Because the government can't get a ham sandwich right so imagine how much it will fuck up medicine

U.S. government gets the military right. The United States has the best military in the world. But its non-government for profit healthcare system ranks about 34th in the world based on U.S. life expectancy.

The Pentagon is easily one of the top wasteful, duplicative, and corrupt sectors of the entire federal gubmint...ROFLMAFAO!

 

[U2Edge]

Just curious U2Edge: when you say Cyprus, do you mean the Republic of Cyprus? What's the situation in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus? Do they have universal healthcare or not?
I'm asking you this because I know Cyprus is split in two different countries (even if Norther Cyprus in unrecognized all over the world...)

It refers to the Republic of Cyprus.

 

[occupied]

How many people would quit their shit job tomorrow if it would not cost them and their family insurance? A curious kind of wage slavery exists in America where we accept all sorts of bad behavior by management because they know what it would cost us to stand up and have some pride. Similarly businesses are burdened with the expense of offering insurance instead of decent wages. In short our system is a drag on capitalism.

I'm sure another few million illegals will help remove the "drag on capitalism" right?
Let's get Beto to start tearing down all the barriers on the S. border right?
You sound a LOT like someone who's never had a decent job.

I work a trade as a contractor, we have an unbelievable shortage of labor. I know no ready solution to this problem but there has been no surge of anyone stepping up to fill the positions that illegals used to fill. I have never personally employed an illegal immigrant but just looking around at our subs they are having a hell of a time since it became much harder to find and employ day labor. That being said if everyone in construction had health insurance we would all be better off, the people who actually build America are probably the most under-insured people in America.

 

[U2Edge]

“Why does the United States, the wealthiest country in the world and the 3rd wealthiest per captia country, still not provide Universal Healthcare for its citizens?”

Because conservatives have successfully propagated the lie that in addition to being ‘too expensive,’ providing all Americans access to affordable healthcare will ‘destroy capitalism’ and make America ‘socialist’ – when in fact nothing could be further from the truth.

Because the government can't get a ham sandwich right so imagine how much it will fuck up medicine

U.S. government gets the military right. The United States has the best military in the world. But its non-government for profit healthcare system ranks about 34th in the world based on U.S. life expectancy.

The Pentagon is easily one of the top wasteful, duplicative, and corrupt sectors of the entire federal gubmint...ROFLMAFAO!

It gets the job done! Best in the world in performance on the battlefield. U.S. private for profit healthcare is 34th in the world. U.S. private for profit healthcare is also vastly more expensive than the U.S. military. The United States spends more than 5 times the amount of money on healthcare as it does the military.

 

[Anathema]

Merrucca prefers to wage war on other countries than to spend the money healing its citizens.

America’s Founding Documents allow the Government to wave war; they do not allow the Government to control healthcare.

If you dislike that paradigm, work towards Constitutional Amendments to change that paradigm. Until you’re successful, suck it up or move somewhere else.

 

[Thinker101]

How many people would quit their shit job tomorrow if it would not cost them and their family insurance? A curious kind of wage slavery exists in America where we accept all sorts of bad behavior by management because they know what it would cost us to stand up and have some pride. Similarly businesses are burdened with the expense of offering insurance instead of decent wages. In short our system is a drag on capitalism.

I'm sure another few million illegals will help remove the "drag on capitalism" right?
Let's get Beto to start tearing down all the barriers on the S. border right?
You sound a LOT like someone who's never had a decent job.

I work a trade as a contractor, we have an unbelievable shortage of labor. I know no ready solution to this problem but there has been no surge of anyone stepping up to fill the positions that illegals used to fill. I have never personally employed an illegal immigrant but just looking around at our subs they are having a hell of a time since it became much harder to find and employ day labor. That being said if everyone in construction had health insurance we would all be better off, the people who actually build America are probably the most under-insured people in America.

Hmmm...maybe you ought to pay more than $10/day.

 

[U2Edge]

“Why does the United States, the wealthiest country in the world and the 3rd wealthiest per captia country, still not provide Universal Healthcare for its citizens?”

Because conservatives have successfully propagated the lie that in addition to being ‘too expensive,’ providing all Americans access to affordable healthcare will ‘destroy capitalism’ and make America ‘socialist’ – when in fact nothing could be further from the truth.

"Below are the 50 most developed countries in the world ranked according to the UN Human Development index"

Right off the bat, your post is bullshit. The "UN Human Development index" is a con. It's propaganda. Any claims made by the U.N. are bullshit.

If you looked at a list of countries based on per capita GDP and life expectancy as estimated by the CIA "world fact book", you would largely get the same list of countries.

 

[Oddball]

It gets the job done! Best in the world in performance on the battlefield. U.S. private for profit healthcare is 34th in the world. U.S. private for profit healthcare is also vastly more expensive than the U.S. military. The United States spends more than 5 times the amount of money on healthcare as it does the military.

Yeah...It "gets the job done", of wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons systems that don't work and nobody wants, enriching crony corporatist contractors and corrupt politicians, while shafting the rank-and-file troopers.

Yeah, they really "get the old job done"....ROFLMFAO!!

 

[U2Edge]

...Why does the United States, the wealthiest country in the world and the 3rd wealthiest per captia country, still not provide Universal Healthcare for its citizens? How could anyone say that Universal HealthCare is impossible or too expensive for the United States when nearly all of the 50 most developed countries in the world provide it for its citizens?...

The fact that it is possible to implement such a system is irrelevant here in the United States .

Here the question is whether or not the Founding documents of this country allow for it.

The answer to that question in unequivocally.... NO. The US Constitution does not allow for such things to be run by the Government, even though we have had an unconstitutional Medicare system for almost a century.

Implementing such a system would require a Constitutional Amendment for true legitimacy, and that’s not likely to be possible in the near future.

the constitution is outdated, time to join the 21st century...you guys worship that constitution like is god's sent. There are lot of things in it than need to be updated.

That's true, you can technically amend the entire constitution.

 

[U2Edge]

It gets the job done! Best in the world in performance on the battlefield. U.S. private for profit healthcare is 34th in the world. U.S. private for profit healthcare is also vastly more expensive than the U.S. military. The United States spends more than 5 times the amount of money on healthcare as it does the military.

Yeah...It "gets the job done", of wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons systems that don't work and nobody wants, enriching crony corporatist contractors, corrupt politicians, while shafting the rank-and-file troopers.

Yeah, they really "get the old job done"....ROFLMFAO!!

If there is a country with a better military than the United States military out there, name it.

 

[cnm]

I think the United States has a lot to learn from the other 49 most developed countries in the world.

It doesn't want to give 'free stuff' to blacks.

 

[depotoo]

Medicare for All’ Would Cost $32.6 Trillion Over 10 Years, Study Says

We currently spend considerably MORE than that on healthcare.

All we're talking about is cost shifting

Actually, no we don’t. The figures you see thrown around include much more than what universal healthcare covers, such as over the counter meds, dental, and retirement communities that offer assisted living. You also aren’t told many of these places still require a 30% copay, on top of premium cost. That wait times for specialists takes months, that they don’t include drugs that are considered cost prohibitive, but can save lives. The cover illegal immigrants that the rest of their population has to cover. I could go on and on. And the quality of care over all is less than what we have here in the US.

 

[Oddball]

If there is a country with a better military than the United States military out there, name it.

That Murica can bomb the fuck out of everyone better than anyone on the globe, is irrelevant to the fact that the Pentagon is one of the most wasteful and corrupt parts of the entire Alphabet Soup Mafia....That you'd use it as a model of "success" just shows how disconnected you are from anything resembling reality...Oh, and the VA sucks donkey balls.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

01. Cyprus
02. United Arab Emirates
03. Qatar
04. Bahrain
05. United States

POPULATION
01. 1.2 million
02. 9.4 million
03. 2.6 million
04. 1.5 million
05. 326 million


Today we learned just how stupid the average dopey leftist is.

So you’re saying that Merruca can’t do it because of the size of the population?

JAPAN: population 127 MILLION! Universal Healthcare for all its citizens!

The Japanese public debt exceeded one quadrillion yen or about US$10.46 trillion in 2013, more than twice the country's annual gross domestic product.

Japan has one of the highest life expectancy's in the world. Very little poverty, no gun violence. They are living well and living it up.

Their debt is more than twice the country's annual gross domestic product.

Living large indeed

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Below are the 50 most developed countries in the world ranked according to the UN Human Development index which measures development and standard of living through estimates of GDP per capita, life expectancy, and education. There are a total of 197 countries in the world today. 193 of those countries are part of the United Nations. 45 out of the 50 most developed countries in the world below provide UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE for its citizens, essentially medicare for all. The following are the five countries from the list below that do not:

01. Cyprus
02. United Arab Emirates
03. Qatar
04. Bahrain
05. United States

Cyprus is currently In the process of moving to a Universal Healthcare system which will be completed in a few years. That will leave the United States alone with three Arab countries as being the only countries, of the 50 most developed in the world, that do not have Universal HealthCare.

Why does the United States, the wealthiest country in the world and the 3rd wealthiest per captia country, still not provide Universal Healthcare for its citizens? How could anyone say that Universal HealthCare is impossible or too expensive for the United States when nearly all of the 50 most developed countries in the world provide it for its citizens?


50 MOST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD RANKED:

01 - Norway
02 - Switzerland
03 - Australia
04 - Ireland
05 - Germany
06 - Iceland
07 - San Marino
08 - Sweden
09 - Singapore
10 - Netherlands
11 - Denmark
12 Canada
13 - United States
14 - United Kingdom
15 - Monaco
16 - Vatican City
17 - Finland
18 - New Zealand
19 - Belgium
20 - Liechtenstein
21 - Japan
22 - Austria
23 - Luxembourg
24 - Israel
25 - Taiwan
26 - South Korea
27 - France
28 - Slovenia
29 - Spain
30 - Czech Republic
31 - Italy
32 - Malta
33 - Estonia
34 - Greece
35 - Cyprus
36 - Poland
37 - United Arab Emirates
38 - Andorra
39 - Lithuania
40 - Qatar
41 - Slovakia
42 - Brunei
43 - Saudi Arabia
44 - Latvia
45 - Portugal
46 - Bahrain
47 - Chile
48 - Hungary
49 - Croatia
50 - Argentina

Quit teasing us and just move to one of these utopian wonderlands.

Well, since the United States is part of the above list, I already live in one. We just need to provide are citizens with universal healthcare like all the other utopia's already do and then were good.

We may be able to do that if everyone was paying 2000 a month for coverage .

 

[Taz]

Merrucca prefers to wage war on other countries than to spend the money healing its citizens.

America’s Founding Documents allow the Government to wave war; they do not allow the Government to control healthcare.

If you dislike that paradigm, work towards Constitutional Amendments to change that paradigm. Until you’re successful, suck it up or move somewhere else.

That's Merrucca's problem, too many people like you prefer war over healing.

 

[U2Edge]

I spent years in Canada...I know single payer FAR better than most of you do. It is a terrible system.

I am all for government healthcare for those who need it.

But I am 100% against single payer.

Want to know what it is like to be a patient in a single payer system?
Go to the DMV (in America) and that is how you will be treated in single payer...not as a person, but STRICTLY as a number (unless you get 'lucky' and someone nice takes pity on you).
Single payer means customer satisfaction becomes TOTALLY irrelevant. All the employees will care about is doing what they are told by their superior. You could literally scream at them for help - and if it is not their responsibility - they will not lift a finger for you (unless they are young/new).
That is the DMV and THAT is single payer.

Leave government healthcare for those who need it and leave private healthcare for everyone else...that, IMO, is the best system.

Private healthcare in the United States is already like that. My brother in law broke his knee in a car accident and was taken to the hospital in Miami. After being discharged from the emergency room, he asked for wheel chair. He was told that he did not need one because "nothing was broken, and that he needed to MAN UP"! That's private health care for you. People are only there for a pay check. They are not actually there because their interested in caring for people. That's why the United States is 34th in life expectancy despite spending more per person on healthcare than any country in the world.

 

[Taz]

Below are the 50 most developed countries in the world ranked according to the UN Human Development index which measures development and standard of living through estimates of GDP per capita, life expectancy, and education. There are a total of 197 countries in the world today. 193 of those countries are part of the United Nations. 45 out of the 50 most developed countries in the world below provide UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE for its citizens, essentially medicare for all. The following are the five countries from the list below that do not:

01. Cyprus
02. United Arab Emirates
03. Qatar
04. Bahrain
05. United States

Cyprus is currently In the process of moving to a Universal Healthcare system which will be completed in a few years. That will leave the United States alone with three Arab countries as being the only countries, of the 50 most developed in the world, that do not have Universal HealthCare.

Why does the United States, the wealthiest country in the world and the 3rd wealthiest per captia country, still not provide Universal Healthcare for its citizens? How could anyone say that Universal HealthCare is impossible or too expensive for the United States when nearly all of the 50 most developed countries in the world provide it for its citizens?


50 MOST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD RANKED:

01 - Norway
02 - Switzerland
03 - Australia
04 - Ireland
05 - Germany
06 - Iceland
07 - San Marino
08 - Sweden
09 - Singapore
10 - Netherlands
11 - Denmark
12 Canada
13 - United States
14 - United Kingdom
15 - Monaco
16 - Vatican City
17 - Finland
18 - New Zealand
19 - Belgium
20 - Liechtenstein
21 - Japan
22 - Austria
23 - Luxembourg
24 - Israel
25 - Taiwan
26 - South Korea
27 - France
28 - Slovenia
29 - Spain
30 - Czech Republic
31 - Italy
32 - Malta
33 - Estonia
34 - Greece
35 - Cyprus
36 - Poland
37 - United Arab Emirates
38 - Andorra
39 - Lithuania
40 - Qatar
41 - Slovakia
42 - Brunei
43 - Saudi Arabia
44 - Latvia
45 - Portugal
46 - Bahrain
47 - Chile
48 - Hungary
49 - Croatia
50 - Argentina

Quit teasing us and just move to one of these utopian wonderlands.

Well, since the United States is part of the above list, I already live in one. We just need to provide are citizens with universal healthcare like all the other utopia's already do and then were good.

We may be able to do that if everyone was paying 2000 a month for coverage .

Other countries can manage it out of general tax revenues. Why can't we?

 

[Oddball]

Private healthcare in the United States is already like that. My brother in law broke his knee in a car accident and was taken to the hospital in Miami. After being discharged from the emergency room, he asked for wheel chair. He was told that he did not need one because "nothing was broken, and that he needed to MAN UP"! That's private health care for you. People are only there for a pay check. They are not actually there because their interested in caring for people. That's why the United States is 34th in life expectancy despite spending more per person on healthcare than any country in the world.

And nothing says "caring" like a massive and unaccountable federal bureaucracy.....Rube.