The Republicans and their owners big business, big pharma and big insurance keep telling us how bad "socialized" medicine is and how we have the best healthcare system in the world and how awful it would be if we had to suffer under the British, Canadian or Goddess forbid the French systems and how it would be be a terrible thing:
In “Measuring the Health of Nations: Updating an Earlier Analysis” (Health Affairs, Jan./Feb. 2008), Ellen Nolte, Ph.D., and C. Martin McKee, M.D., D.Sc., both of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, compared international rates of “amenable mortality”—that is, deaths from certain causes before age 75 that are potentially preventable with timely and effective health care.
And you see what that tells us:
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