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Gate · 19 Nov 2009, 10:29

It looks like the current US healthcare is disastrous. Can demographic differences really explain how you spend something like more-than-double the UK's per capita amount? (in 2004, according to WDI database).

If the figures I've read are right, you also have lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, a lower proportion of critical care beds, more time spent ill etc.

That's a miserable failure of a system; you'd probably be much better off copying countries that work better. (yes, even the UK).

All the news articles I found in a 2min google were vague, or tl;dr. Anyone fancy summarising the key bits of Obama's reform?

19 Nov 2009, 10:29	#29
Gate ;D! Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,810	Re: Obama It looks like the current US healthcare is disastrous. Can demographic differences really explain how you spend something like more-than-double the UK's per capita amount? (in 2004, according to WDI database). If the figures I've read are right, you also have lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, a lower proportion of critical care beds, more time spent ill etc. That's a miserable failure of a system; you'd probably be much better off copying countries that work better. (yes, even the UK). All the news articles I found in a 2min google were vague, or tl;dr. Anyone fancy summarising the key bits of Obama's reform? __________________ [ND] Kicked from Ascendancy Proud to have been a Dark Lord Rising.