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A comment on America's misguided culture of overwork. Parent comment

Re:America's misguided culture of overwork by davidw on Thursday August 26, 2010 @12:19PM (#1636360)
Ok, but the real difference is in spending. People in the US live to 78, Canadians to 81, according to that site, which isn't a huge difference. The difference in spending, however, is, which is why the US is such an outlier on that chart.

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Re:America's misguided culture of overwork by yummyfajitas on Thursday August 26, 2010 @12:26PM (#1636390)
I was questioning the claim of "more luxury, more free time, and better health-care".

Much like free time, claims about costs are easily googleable.

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Re:America's misguided culture of overwork by arethuza on Friday August 27, 2010 @05:30AM (#1638348)
I think that just a disagreement over how to interpret "best" - for an individual who can afford it the "best" health care is likely to be in the US. However, I suspect Europeans think of it as "pretty good health care for everyone" rather than "the absolutely the most effective health care for some".

I'm in the UK so I rather like knowing that everyone has access to pretty decent healthcare which is free at the point of delivery. If I want fancier stuff or a slightly nicer room or more quickly than what the NHS can provide I can always go private. However, I've never done that and I don't know anyone who has for anything major.

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