Socialized Health Care in the USA

[Thecla]

Only in the US can you get medical treatment to offset your poor health as a result of your 32 fast food meals in a week.

Not to mention the effect of gun freedom on life expectancy, which would of course also have to be factored out.;)

If we focus on minimizing the need for health care, the supply of care will increase and the overall costs will drop. I would also expect to see a dramatic rise in life expectancy and reduction in infant mortality. We are a sick society, mostly by our own bad choices.

But seriously, you seem to have little regard for the importance of preventative medicine and the availability of routine medical treatment for everyone, including people who are too poor to afford adequate health care, whether they are pregnant mothers-to-be or the uninsured who eventually wind up in the ER rooms at enormous and avoidable expense to the entire system.