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Originally Posted by mikesouth
Another thing that Mr Moore would have you belive is that life expectancy of a nation somehow relates to the quality of it's healthcare. Simply not true. The French live longer because they have better diets, ditto the Japanese, Canadians and most everyone else he mentioned. They don't feed their kids McDonalds for every meal and they don't keep them in the house playing video games.
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I liked everything that you said but this. You should also be taking into consideration that both the Japanese and French smoke a lot more than we do in North America, so there is more to it than just diet.
Oh, and I'm not sure if you heard but Massachusetts is pushing for a form of universal health care by basically forcing residents to get insurance. They are planning on fining anyone who does not have insurance and also helping to lower the cost for insurance for individuals and getting companies to insure their full time employees. If memory serves they are planning to get this going by the end of the year. California and other states are watching in anticipation because if it is successful they are going to implement similar models.