Then entertain yourselves by asking them how a country with such a no good, very bad, horrible health care system ends up creaming the United States in every single metric.Our friends at Sadly, No! take a look at the actual outcomes between the US and Canada. I don't think it will surprise you to see that the U.S. system doesn't measure up so well:
Circulatory disease deaths per 100,000:
Canada: 219 United States: 265 Canada: 0.7 United States: 2.2 Canada: 17.4 United States: 20.5 Canada: 5.08 United States: 6.3 Canada: 0.3% United States: 7.3% Canada: 9.5% United States: 12.8% Read more at Sadly, No!
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25 July, 2009
The Next Time Some Dumbshit Scaremongers About Canada...
...show them this:
According to the CIA's statistics, the average life expectancy in Canada is 81 years. In the U.S. it's 78. They live three years longer than we do, in a climate that's generally worse and a country that has far more wilderness.
ReplyDeleteThen entertain yourselves by asking them how a country with such a no good, very bad, horrible health care system ends up creaming the United States in every single metric.
ReplyDeleteYou mean Canadians live longer because of the metric system?
Man, you guys are so screwed.
I just had a look at the figures - in Australia, the life expectancy figures are about a year higher than for Canadians (both for males and females).
That horrible socialized (or in our case, semi-socialized) medicine - it keeps poor people alive. And what do they do? Some of them turn around and vote.
Can't have that! They might vote for the other guy...