Old 09-03-2025 | 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Ebola
That last paragraph is pure comedy gold. Not even close. Excerpt from report written in 2021. Feel free to look elsewhere if it’s not palatable. I can’t find anything that backs your opinion.


“Remarkably, a high-income person in the U.S. was more likely to report financial barriers than a low-income person in nearly all the other countries surveyed: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K.
Norway, the Netherlands, and Australia were the top performers overall. In the middle of the pack were the U.K., Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, and France. Switzerland and Canada ranked lower than those countries, although both still performed much better than the U.S.”

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/pre...countries-many
I didn't say we had access to cheaper healthcare.

We (upper middle class USA) smoke less and exercise more than most (not all) foreign populations, and we can afford healthcare when we need it.

You haven't worked much overseas, but they smoke a lot in many places.