NorthEastCane
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One quote from the article:I just put it out there because that's what we're always told. When you look at things like healthcare, mortality, distribution of wealth, etc, we don't stack up.
Healthcare and Mortality:
U.S. health spending twice other countries' with worse results
The U.S. spends about twice what other high-income nations do on health care but has the lowest life expectancy and the highest infant mortality rates, a new study suggests.www.reuters.com
"One limitation of the study is that researchers lacked information on the quality of care across all of the countries."
In other words, we're comparing apple to oranges. We have no objective measure to make a proper cost/benefit analysis.Key factoid from the article:Income Distribution:
U.S. has highest level of income inequality among G7 countries
www.pewresearch.org
"The gaps in income between upper-income and middle- and lower-income households are rising, and the share held by middle-income households is falling."
No schit sherlock. The slide show must have been produced by Captain Obvious. It just means our middle class had more juice to squeeze than other countries, most of which were squeezed in the 19th century if they had a middle class. Don't forget, most of continental Europe's "middle class" were serfs or peasants emerging from under monarchy. And this is a trend measured from 1970 to present across both political parties. (of note: it was not a straight decrease. The gap slowed down and decreased during the Reagan years.)
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