Dr Gerald J. Brown MD, the author of Health Care and Obama near completion has decided to put a little meat on the bone for his writing in Daily Kos. So he writes: a man is indeed confused when he cannot tell the right breast from the left; and so it is with liberals with the latest Senate enactment, at the cusp of legislative efforts going back over a century, seeking a societal enactment for the health needs of the citizens of our nation. The Party of No has been so successful from its perspective with its framing of the pending law that liberals can feel entrapped as crustaceans in a lobster pot.
It is really pitiful that our country cannot crawl out of its deep hole of such a deficiency of health care among the score of leading economic countries in the world, where we spend so much more than the others measured in terms of gross national product (GNP) and yet be found at the bottom in health care results
as acknowledge even by our own Government Accounting Office. It’s over twice as dangerous for a baby to be born in the United States compared to Japan.
Speaking of six countries, The United States lags other industrialized nations in life expectancy at birth," the year again 2000 and contrasting the same six countries the United States with the least 76.8 years and Sweden with 79.7 years and Japan 81.2 years. Again the GAO proclaims generally for the same period. "The United States exceeds other industrialized nations in potential years of life lost," per 100,000 resident populations in 1999 but with the deaths recorded for 2000, except data from Canada recorded in 1997, the United States 5,229; France 4,088; German 3,907; U.K.3,889; Canada 3 873; Japan 3,120;and Sweden 2,987.