Also, it’s incredibly ignorant to think the WHO statistics of life expectancy is directly relative to quality of the overall healthcare system. Go look at the correlation of a countries wealth (per capita GDP) to overall life expectancy and you will see much more interesting tie. Once you do that and you also realize that people die for reasons outside of healthcare go look at the life expectancy numbers that take out violent crime, accidents, etc. that don’t actually engage the healthcare system and let me know where the US is on that chart. (you might want to check the top of the list.)
If you really want to get a feel for the quality of care for a healthcare system you should look at numbers / statistics that actually focus on healthcare involvement. Things like cancer survival rates when the healthcare system is involved would be good metrics. Also, Infant Mortality Rate could be a good measure, but at least compare apples to apples. There are numerous ways that different countries report IMR and what actually constitutes a live birth. In the US it is showing any signs of life at birth, in some countries it’s surviving past the first 24 hours which is past when ~40% of infant deaths happen. I’m not saying the US is number 1, just compare relative measurements.
I’m not arguing that the US healthcare system isn’t expensive and/or inefficient, but people aren’t necessarily hankering to get into Canada instead of the US to get quality healthcare.
Also, something to note, freedom is rarely easy or convenient, it is founded on personal responsibility. Just because it isn’t easy doesn’t mean we should have the government run our lives for us.
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