"thunder" wrote in message
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On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:18:19 -0400, Captain Zombie of Woodstock wrote:


When my youngest boy was ineligible for our insurance, we looked around
for a strictly major medical policy for him - bare bones, just cover any
catastrophe.

It was cheap - I mean like $4-500/yr? Something like that.

Was that recently? I'm surprised it was that low. Major medical sounds
interesting, but there is something to be said for access before it gets
to a major medical situation. Personally, I don't know what the answer
is, but this system is clearly broken. We are spending, as %GDP, nearly
twice as much as any other industrialized nation, and getting less care.
I've heard it argued that we have the best emergency care on the planet,
but when it comes to life expectancy, infant mortality, etc. we do not
have the best care.

Life expectancy is higher than most European nations. If you exclude
Homicides and accidents. We drive a lot more than Europeans, and therefore
have more fatalities. Looking at the cancer survival rates, we are lots
higher.