Best health care in the world?

No, only the most expensive.

As I said earlier, another chart, this one on the insane, obscene amount we spend in this country on health care.  It's ludicrous.  

And on top of that, we're ranked (here we go again) 37th in the world, in mortality rates, behind Third World Costa Rica, for pity's sake.  And do you know why we're behind Costa Rica?  We're behind Costa-freakin'-Rica because they have universal health care.

And we likely never will.

HL Mencken couldn't have known how right--and prophetic--he was when he said "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." 

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