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Re: a dumb query? pls humor me



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On 03/04/07 21:59, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 07:46:30PM -0800, Michael M. wrote:
>> On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 14:34 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> Or a Brit needing an operation for which there is a very long
>>> waiting list because of NHS inefficiencies?
>> Life Expectancy at birth (years):
>>          U.S.     E.U.     U.K.     Canada
>> Male:    75.02    75.10    76.09    76.86
>> Female:  80.82	  81.60    81.13    83.74
>> Total:   77.85    78.30    78.54    80.22
>>
>> Infant Mortality Rate (per 1000 live births)
>>          U.S.     E.U.     U.K.     Canada
>> Male:    7.09     5.60     5.67     5.15
>> Female:  5.74     4.50     4.47     4.22
>> Total:   6.43     5.10     5.08     4.69
>>
>> Sure looks like socialized medicine is sucking there, huh?
>>
>> I guess conservatives in the U.S. are only concerned about a the life
>> cycle of fetus until a baby is born, after which it's fine by them if
>> the baby dies, as long as the dreaded spectre of "Universal Health Care"
>> is kept at bay.
>>
> So what?  The US also has the highest levels of obesity in the world.  I
> *highly doubt* that even if the US happened to implement that absolute

And don't forget the poor illegal immigrants, and the fat poor
people.  And the women too stupid to take care of themselves during
pregnancy, and the people who think that vaccines are a a Jewish (or
is that Whitey, I keep forgetting) conspiracy to sterilize black people.




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