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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I simply looked at the map posted. China provides some form of national health care, but so what! If what my friend says is true, and he has never given me a reason to doubt him, generally people not connected in China have very little in the form of medical care compared to what we get here, even the uninsured. In most non-urban areas of China any form of professional medicare care is rare. In Africa the same is true. So, connecting the two - does national health care really matter, if there are no doctors, no facilities, no medicine, etc.?
I think in the US we confuse access to medical care with health insurance.
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So your point now is relevant because we don't have enough doctors in the states to handle it even if we did have national health care? If that's the case, which it might be in some rural areas, I'd say we do what Mexico does and offer free med school to those who meet or exceed set standards in their first four years of college. Then have them serve a rural area for 4-5 yrs. My current doctor went to med school at UCLA, completely paid for by the Mexican government, she then provided medical services in small town near here named Ticul for 4 yrs. So I agree- US needs health care and access to it.
Still haven't heard anyone address why were paying for health in other countries but failing to do so in our own.