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today’s health care facts

July 10, 2007 by will shetterly

Countries with some form of universal health care (from here, Norway added):

Afghanistan*, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iraq*, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
*Universal health coverage provided by United States war funding

Countries whose citizens live longer than people in the USA (from here):

Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.

Countries without universal health care whose citizens live longer than people in the USA:

Hong Kong, Singapore, Switzerland, Malta, United Arab Emirates.

later: Added South Korea to the clearly incomplete list.

Posted in seeker | Tagged seeker, universal health care | 5 Comments

5 Responses to “today’s health care facts”

on July 10, 2007 at 5:02 pm1 tattermuffin

Wait, the US invades Afghanistan and then they get universal health coverage paid for by the US gov’t, but it’s a huge matter of debate yada yada here?

Charming.
on July 10, 2007 at 5:11 pm2 cakmpls

I wonder why South Korea isn’t on the first list? They do have.
on July 10, 2007 at 5:18 pm3 willshetterly

Yep. Welcome to Bizarro Earth!
on July 10, 2007 at 5:19 pm4 willshetterly

It was the easiest list to find, but it’s clearly flawed. I’ll add South Korea to mine. Thanks!
on July 10, 2007 at 5:31 pm5 artfulruin

Governmental choices get more surreal all the time. I wouldn’t believe this was possible.