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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Ace, while that may be so, things are getting worse, not better. Companies are dropping their healthcare plans because of premium costs and many workers cannot afford their premiums even if they are available where they work.
How easy is it to visit a doctor, get medication, and go to the emergency room if you can't pay for it? How much of this is subsidized by the government if you are uninsured?
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When you write "things are getting worse", that is difficult to challenge because a time frame has not been defined. However, over the long-term things are getting better by some measurements.
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Americans' life expectancy reached a record high of 78.1 years in 2006, with disparities among ethnic groups and between the sexes generally narrowing, according to government data released yesterday.
The death rates from most diseases went down, with influenza mortality falling steeply and AIDS mortality marking its 10th straight year of decline. Infant mortality in 2006 also fell from the previous year, continuing a trend stretching back nearly 50 years.
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Life Expectancy Hits Record High in United States - washingtonpost.com
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