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[mr_know_it_all]

Hi Xena. No offense, but Aeroman is right. ALso, the quality goes way down. Again, if you want proof, go to the Buffalo, NY hospitals and see how many Canadians dominate the waiting rooms. I've had conversations with them and they will point blank tell you that their health care is not close to ours, which is why they are coming over to have key procedures done.

[whippinsaw]

This Week In FDA History - Nov. 23, 1977
To pig to fail,
November 23, 1977:
Congress passes the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act to stop the FDA from banning the chemical sweetener. The legislation instead requires a warning on the label of products containing saccharin stating, "Use of this product may be hazardous to your health. This product contains saccharin which has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals."

[Aero-man]

The graphs you present don’t show the whole picture and are probably skewed to show socialized medicine in a more favorable light.

In 1965 the US government entered the medical market with Medicare and Medicaid, which was a big bonanza for health providers and costs soared – your graph also seems to show a degradation after that point in time. Also, looks like a drop in life expectancy as costs climbed, which occurred about the same time Obama care kicked in - as planned by the socialists.

The cost of health-care for illegal aliens in this country accounts for many $Billions. And, how many enter the US for critical care that they can’t get with their own socialized systems. Also, the cost of litigation and malpractice insurance for physicians has driven up costs dramatically.

Again, health-care needs to be reformed in this country, but big-government socialized medicine isn’t the answer. People need to be held responsible for their own care, not big-government, in order to hold down costs.