Originally Posted by
rickair7777
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.
I don’t know how to tell you this Rick - but you’re just flat out wrong. The data doesn’t back up what you’re saying and neither does my experience. We’re both talking about the same thing I assume ? First world western democracies right ? Use the list in the attached article for a starting point. A forty year old Air France pilot isn’t sitting in a smoky bar on the Marseilles wharf huffing cigarettes.
To your last point - I’ve lived in four of them, and I don’t mean living and working out of a U.S. base with a PX. That's not the same thing. You’re in a bubble.