CDZ Japan has a better national health care than us: why?

[pismoe]

same goes for some muslim couple , both imported into the USA 'i think' that shot up and killed quite a few Americans in some California State Office a few years ago . That was San Bernadino and the guy was no 'new business' starter , he was a government worker that was given a job most likely because he was 'muslim' Flopper .

Since 911 there have been 391 Muslims terrorist either killed in a terrorist attack or charged with terrorism in the US; that is committing, planning, assisting, or knowing of an attack and not reporting it. There are approximately 4 million Muslims in the US. That means there're 10,000 Muslims with no connection to terrorism for every Muslim terrorist in American.

Your hostility toward Muslims are really counterproductive. The most effective weapon we have against Islamic terrorism are Muslims that step forward with information that foils terrorist attacks and leads to arrests.
Who are the Terrorists?

----------------------------------------------------------------------- just for the record , no ACTUAL hostility from me toward any muslim or anyone else as i simply speak freely . I know no muslims , nearest are hundreds of miles away . And as i have said , muslims and any other imported people are the next generations problem including your Grandkids . As i have told other youngsters , millenials , dopes , youngsters , liberals , liberal women and their kids plus YOU Flopper , YOU guys deserve what you get Flopper .

------------------------------------------------------------- and furthermore , its as i have said in some of my other posts regarding the USA . The USA has been the best country in the world at least for my and my parents generations and YOU people want to change it . YOU people are crazy Flopper .

 

[Picaro]

Stop legal immigration to the US and in 50 years, America would be a third world country.

And if we don't stop illegal immigration to the US in 50 years, America will be a third world country

Poverty rates above 30% and climbing now; it will be lot sooner than 50 years, maybe 20 tops.

 

[Flopper]

I posted what i think Flopper , you disagreeing is ok with me but i am perfectly happy all my life with the way things are / WERE in the USA . As things change they will mostly affect the next generations Flopper .

And they won't effect me either because of my age but I have kids and grand kids that will be affected. Isolationism, global warming, and the growing income inequity between the wealthy and the working class worries me.

I can't say that income inequality bothers me much. Income insufficiency does, however, but only to a point. I'm not terribly concerned about individuals who don't "read the writing on the wall" and, while they are part of the "making it" ("working class" or better) segment of society, proactively position themselves to partake in what's to come.

Everyone should be concerned with income disparity. In developed countries it has a more a negative effect on crime, drug addiction, education, economic mobility, and economic growth than poverty itself.

The United States is the most economically stratified society in the western world. According to the Wall Street Journal, 14,000 (.01%) of the people in American have 22% of the nations total wealth. This income disparity has made American democracy an illusion. The people do not govern. Politicians respond almost exclusively to the desires of special interests and the wealthiest citizens.

What's happening today in the US Senate is a sad example of severe income disparity. 80% of republicans in the Senates approve of taking healthcare insurance away from 22 million of the poorest people in the country in order to finance tax cuts for the wealthiest.

 

[Flopper]

same goes for some muslim couple , both imported into the USA 'i think' that shot up and killed quite a few Americans in some California State Office a few years ago . That was San Bernadino and the guy was no 'new business' starter , he was a government worker that was given a job most likely because he was 'muslim' Flopper .

Since 911 there have been 391 Muslims terrorist either killed in a terrorist attack or charged with terrorism in the US; that is committing, planning, assisting, or knowing of an attack and not reporting it. There are approximately 4 million Muslims in the US. That means there're 10,000 Muslims with no connection to terrorism for every Muslim terrorist in American.

Your hostility toward Muslims are really counterproductive. The most effective weapon we have against Islamic terrorism are Muslims that step forward with information that foils terrorist attacks and leads to arrests.
Who are the Terrorists?

----------------------------------------------------------------------- just for the record , no ACTUAL hostility from me toward any muslim or anyone else as i simply speak freely . I know no muslims , nearest are hundreds of miles away . And as i have said , muslims and any other imported people are the next generations problem including your Grandkids . As i have told other youngsters , millenials , dopes , youngsters , liberals , liberal women and their kids plus YOU Flopper , YOU guys deserve what you get Flopper .

------------------------------------------------------------- and furthermore , its as i have said in some of my other posts regarding the USA . The USA has been the best country in the world at least for my and my parents generations and YOU people want to change it . YOU people are crazy Flopper .

If you don't know any Muslims why are you condemning them, surely you don't believe all the B.S the hate groups are spreading? I know a number of Muslim families. Some of these families have been in this country a hundred years or more. I know of one family whose members have served in the military in ever major war since and including WWII. These people have fought and died for this country and certainly don't deserve to be condemned because of their religions beliefs in a country that prides itself on religious tolerance.

 

[pismoe]

feck'em , their murderous muslim reputation and history precedes them . See muslim history of muslim invasion , conquering by the sword , jizya , dhiminitude , rape jihad , taqiya for the last 1400 years since invention of islam . Plus see what they do in their homelands plus see what they are doing in Europe and England . Course , you know all about muslim murder , violence , mayhem and history throughout the centuries . -------------- its cool , keep talking and trying out your BS as your BS only helps me clarify my thinking . Other readers of our polite conversation can make up their minds if they come across and read our little conversation Flopper .

 

[pismoe]

TRUE islam is incompatible with the USA which has the USA Constitution as its highest sourse of law Flopper .

 

[pismoe]

and any muslim who accepts the USA Constitution as the highest law of the USA is an apostate Flopper . So apostate muslims might actually be the best muslims . Course , see AMI in Minnesota as he interviews muslims on the streets Flopper . --- ---

 

[usmbguest5318]

I posted what i think Flopper , you disagreeing is ok with me but i am perfectly happy all my life with the way things are / WERE in the USA . As things change they will mostly affect the next generations Flopper .

And they won't effect me either because of my age but I have kids and grand kids that will be affected. Isolationism, global warming, and the growing income inequity between the wealthy and the working class worries me.

I can't say that income inequality bothers me much. Income insufficiency does, however, but only to a point. I'm not terribly concerned about individuals who don't "read the writing on the wall" and, while they are part of the "making it" ("working class" or better) segment of society, proactively position themselves to partake in what's to come.

Everyone should be concerned with income disparity. In developed countries it has a more a negative effect on crime, drug addiction, education, economic mobility, and economic growth than poverty itself.

The United States is the most economically stratified society in the western world. According to the Wall Street Journal, 14,000 (.01%) of the people in American have 22% of the nations total wealth. This income disparity has made American democracy an illusion. The people do not govern. Politicians respond almost exclusively to the desires of special interests and the wealthiest citizens.

What's happening today in the US Senate is a sad example of severe income disparity. 80% of republicans in the Senates approve of taking healthcare insurance away from 22 million of the poorest people in the country in order to finance tax cuts for the wealthiest.

80% of republicans in the Senates approve of taking healthcare insurance away from 22 million of the poorest people in the country in order to finance tax cuts for the wealthiest.

While I'm not terribly troubled over income disparity, I certainly don't think Congress should take steps to exacerbate it.

 

[Flopper]

I posted what i think Flopper , you disagreeing is ok with me but i am perfectly happy all my life with the way things are / WERE in the USA . As things change they will mostly affect the next generations Flopper .

And they won't effect me either because of my age but I have kids and grand kids that will be affected. Isolationism, global warming, and the growing income inequity between the wealthy and the working class worries me.

I can't say that income inequality bothers me much. Income insufficiency does, however, but only to a point. I'm not terribly concerned about individuals who don't "read the writing on the wall" and, while they are part of the "making it" ("working class" or better) segment of society, proactively position themselves to partake in what's to come.

Everyone should be concerned with income disparity. In developed countries it has a more a negative effect on crime, drug addiction, education, economic mobility, and economic growth than poverty itself.

The United States is the most economically stratified society in the western world. According to the Wall Street Journal, 14,000 (.01%) of the people in American have 22% of the nations total wealth. This income disparity has made American democracy an illusion. The people do not govern. Politicians respond almost exclusively to the desires of special interests and the wealthiest citizens.

What's happening today in the US Senate is a sad example of severe income disparity. 80% of republicans in the Senates approve of taking healthcare insurance away from 22 million of the poorest people in the country in order to finance tax cuts for the wealthiest.

80% of republicans in the Senates approve of taking healthcare insurance away from 22 million of the poorest people in the country in order to finance tax cuts for the wealthiest.

While I'm not terribly troubled over income disparity, I certainly don't think Congress should take steps to exacerbate it.

Income disparity is like so many issues. It's needed but not in large does. Policies that go to extremes are basically bad policies.

 

[Mac1958]

Obesity rates around the world. Look at the country on the very left, then the country on the very right.

This matters, significantly, whether we want to admit it or not.

This isn't just about health care, as much as some would like it to be.
.

 

[Flopper]

Obesity rates around the world. Look at the country on the very left, then the country on the very right.

This matters, significantly, whether we want to admit it or not.

This isn't just about health care, as much as some would like it to be.
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The estimated annual health care costs of obesity-related illness are a staggering $190.2 billion or nearly 21% of annual medical spending in the United States. Childhood obesity alone is responsible for $14 billion in direct medical costs.
Economic Costs of Obesity | Healthy Communities for a Healthy Future

 

[Picaro]

Democrats have all sorts of criticisms, some are even valid. What they don't have is any real interest in addressing the problems, they just want to be re-elected over and over and over, and keep telling us how it's those evul white proles are the entire problem and exhorting their base to commit atrocities against them.

 

[Picaro]

Obesity rates around the world. Look at the country on the very left, then the country on the very right.

This matters, significantly, whether we want to admit it or not.

This isn't just about health care, as much as some would like it to be.
.

As an addendum that adds a little 'granularity' to those stats, break the demographics down by ethnicity and sex Don't know the stats on birthrates from the same list of countries in that graph, but childbirth has a measurable effect on percentages as well..

Differences in Prevalence of Obesity Among Black, White, and Hispanic Adults --- United States, 2006--2008

Differences in Obesity Rates Among Minority and White Women: The Latent Role of Maternal Stress. - PubMed - NCBI

 

[Mac1958]

Obesity rates around the world. Look at the country on the very left, then the country on the very right.

This matters, significantly, whether we want to admit it or not.

This isn't just about health care, as much as some would like it to be.
.

As an addendum that adds a little 'granularity' to those stats, break the demographics down by ethnicity and sex Don't know the stats on birthrates from the same list of countries in that graph, but childbirth has a measurable effect on percentages as well..

Differences in Prevalence of Obesity Among Black, White, and Hispanic Adults --- United States, 2006--2008

Differences in Obesity Rates Among Minority and White Women: The Latent Role of Maternal Stress. - PubMed - NCBI

Personally, I think most of our problems are cultural at their base, and this issue is no different. No doubt the various cultures within our society would have to be examined in terms of lifestyle.
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[Picaro]

Personally, I think most of our problems are cultural at their base, and this issue is no different. No doubt the various cultures within our society would have to be examined in terms of lifestyle.
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I agree, and it's the severe weakening of our social cohesion, by ideologues on both the left and the right, via the politics of mindless self-indulgence that are determined to weaken it even further.

When I was a kid, you couldn't keep me in a house when I had the least opportunity to go outside and do whatever, same for the vast majority of those around me. Today, I almost never see kids out doing anything, and when I do they're walking around staring at one of those silly phones, and only walking to and from the school bus stop, and few of them at that.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Japan doesn't have a corrupt Congress siphoning off taxpayer funds.

Also, they have porn police. Wait, or is that China?

 

[Mac1958]

I agree, and it's the severe weakening of our social cohesion, by ideologues on both the left and the right, via the politics of mindless self-indulgence that are determined to weaken it even further.

Yep, and it only appears to be growing in intensity. Too many people who have a vested professional interest in keeping us angry and separated.
.

 

[Picaro]

Japan doesn't have a corrupt Congress siphoning off taxpayer funds.

Also, they have porn police. Wait, or is that China?

They don't have a long history of eating a lot of animal meat, just seafood, and rice grains and leaves and the like. They do, however, currently have as serious a problem with electronic addictions and distractions as we do; so does South Korea.

 

[Flopper]

Japan doesn't have a corrupt Congress siphoning off taxpayer funds.

Also, they have porn police. Wait, or is that China?

They don't have a long history of eating a lot of animal meat, just seafood, and rice grains and leaves and the like. They do, however, currently have as serious a problem with electronic addictions and distractions as we do; so does South Korea.

I don't know if there is any cultural bias associated with addiction but addictive personalities are very real. I see so many people swapping one addiction for another. I have a son who was on drugs as a teen and has been off and on them all of his life. He gets off drugs, and starts drinking to excess. Gets off alcohol, starts eating like a horse gaining 30 or 40 lbs then goes on diets, loses 50 lbs or more, then he's on prescription drugs for bi-polar disorder, then back on street drugs. Throughout his whole life, he goes from one extreme to another in everything he does. It's as if his life is just two speeds, stop or full speed ahead.

 

[usmbguest5318]

Japan doesn't have a corrupt Congress siphoning off taxpayer funds.

Also, they have porn police. Wait, or is that China?

They don't have a long history of eating a lot of animal meat, just seafood, and rice grains and leaves and the like. They do, however, currently have as serious a problem with electronic addictions and distractions as we do; so does South Korea.

I don't know if there is any cultural bias associated with addiction but addictive personalities are very real. I see so many people swapping one addiction for another. I have a son who was on drugs as a teen and has been off and on them all of his life. He gets off drugs, and starts drinking to excess. Gets off alcohol, starts eating like a horse gaining 30 or 40 lbs then goes on diets, loses 50 lbs or more, then he's on prescription drugs for bi-polar disorder, then back on street drugs. Throughout his whole life, he goes from one extreme to another in everything he does. It's as if his life is just two speeds, stop or full speed ahead.

It's as if his life is just two speeds, stop or full speed ahead.

OT:
Interesting. I wonder whether that binary quality is "to the bone" among millennials. (I presume your son in a millennial.) Nearly all the millennials I speak with express and conceive of things -- everything -- in accordance with the linguistic model of "shi bu shi," "dui bu dui." They seemingly cannot fathom that "to a degree" is possible, and for most things more accurately the case.