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murphyj87

(649 posts)
6. You live in the Corporate States of America
Fri Jan 17, 2014, 09:01 PM
Jan 2014

In the Corporate States of America, even people with so called "good" insurance can't the health care and medical treatment they need. A Gallup Poll shows that only 20% of Americans with insurance are satisfied with the access, quality, and medical outcomes that the insurance company bureaucrat who stands between Americans and a doctor will let them have.

By contrast, a recent Nanos Poll (considered the fairest most non political poll in Canada) shows that 94% of Canadians say that the health care that they get in Canada is better than the insurance run health care that Americans are forced to use (if an insurance company bureaucrat will let them) in the Corporate States of America.

According to website of the American National Institutes of Health, of 38 studies comparing medical outcome in Canada and the US for cancer, heart disease, potentially deadly chronic illnesses (diabetes, hypertension, etc.), and all types of surgery, of the 38 studies which showed one nation to be superior to the other, 71% of the studies showed that Canadians had better medical outcomes in Canada than Americans could have in the US

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