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Healthcare: Is America being shortchanged?
When it comes to healthcare, America is being shortchanged...
-France...
Life expectancy at birth m/f (years): 75.9/83.5
Healthy life expectancy at birth m/f (years): 69.3/74.7
Child mortality m/f (per 1000): 5/4
Adult mortality m/f (per 1000): 133/60
Total health expenditure per capita (Intl $, 2001): 2,567
Total health expenditure as % of GDP (2001): 9.6
http://www.who.int/country/fra/en/
-Canada...
Life expectancy at birth m/f (years): 77.2/82.3
Healthy life expectancy at birth m/f (years): 70.1/74.0
Child mortality m/f (per 1000): 6/5
Adult mortality m/f (per 1000): 95/58
Total health expenditure per capita (Intl $, 2001): 2,792
Total health expenditure as % of GDP (2001): 9.5
http://www.who.int/country/can/en/
-America...
Life expectancy at birth m/f (years): 74.6/79.8
Healthy life expectancy at birth m/f (years): 67.2/71.3
Child mortality m/f (per 1000): 9/7
Adult mortality m/f (per 1000): 140/83
Total health expenditure per capita (Intl $, 2001): 4,887
Total health expenditure as % of GDP (2001): 13.9
http://www.who.int/country/usa/en/
And they don't cover 43 million Americans. Needless to say, the stress of getting sick can't be told in numbers...
Canada's Healthcare for America?
Or Israel's
Socialized Medicine
HOMEPAGE
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