Weiser says:
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The vast majority of workers (not non-producing indigents) in this
country
enjoy the finest health care in the world and are thus quite healthy as
compared to many citizens in socialized medicine systems. That they
have to
pay for their health care only serves to stimulate them to remain
healthy
and take care of themselves.
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On this, I defer to Wilko and his previous comments -- Right On, Wilko!

OK, I'm no specimen of healthy living. Canadians may not be the
fittest people on earth. But, my god, do you Americans ever look at
yourselves?!

You guys are, collectively, HUGE! Collectively, you guys are UNFIT. I'm
biggish. But when I get off the plane in the USA, the first thing I
note is how absolutely slim I look.

I'm thinking your bit about "That they have to pay for their health
care only serves to stimulate them to remain healthy and take care of
themselves." is NOT working for the USA. Another one of those free
enterprise, libertarian notions that's works well in an economics
textbook, but looks quite different in reality.

Your statement leaves me ROTFL.

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