“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
― John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

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Tea Party Pubic Service Announcement

January 22, 2008

New Report Rates US Health Care Worst of Nineteen Industrialized Nations

Measuring the Health of Nations: Updating an Earlier analysis

"This study in Health Affairs reveals important realities about the health care system in 19 countries: 14 Western European Countries, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Japan. Researchers compared international rates of "amenable mortality," which are deaths before the age of 75 that are potentially preventable if health care is regular and effective throughout one’s life. France is said to have the best health care system and the least rate of ‘amenable mortality’ and the US is said to be the worst in terms of its health care system."
(http://www.globalaging.org/index.htm)

For a copy of tyhe full study: http://www.globalaging.org/health/world/2008/nations.pdf
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