I, Health Insurer

Re:I, Health Insurer by drhayes9 on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @02:42PM (#6992426)

Superpower in what sense? I mean, I think I know what sense you mean, but there are some glaring socioeconomic inconsistencies with the label "superpower":

* We have the highest first-day infant mortality in the industrial world: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-has-highest-first-day-infant-...

* The US has a very high poverty rate compared to other industrialized nations: http://depts.washington.edu/wcpc/povertyintheus

* The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world: http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2012/us-incarcerati...

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Re:I, Health Insurer by pbreit on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @02:54PM (#6992487)

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Superpower

None of your points address that the US is indeed the worlds only superpower (as is commonly and widely understood).

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Re:I, Health Insurer by drhayes9 on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @03:09PM (#6992556)

They sure do. We are not a superpower when it comes to how many people we put in prison. We are not a superpower when it comes to how many children die poor on our streets.

And we're not a superpower when it comes to ensuring that our population doesn't die due to lack of health care while driving up the costs for everyone else.

Each one of the issues I bring up occur because of market forces. Prisons are a booming industry (see Arizona's state prisons). Poverty has many ties to health care being market-driven as well as education.

But you don't seem interested in refuting any of my points, so I guess we're done here.

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Re:I, Health Insurer by bananacurve on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @04:14PM (#6992876)

By your definition the Soviet Union wasn't a superpower.

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