One of my biggest problems with today’s press and the kind of articles they write is they are great at CONTENT but not so good at CONTEXT and that could be the problem here too.
a huge amount of Canadians leave Canada every year for better Heath care and procedures, where do they come for these procedures? yes, the United States.
as I have spent some time in Fla playing golf in the winters, I can, anecdotally , tell you I always run into Canadians who come to the U.S. for Medical care.
https://torontosun.com/news/national/canadians-continue-to-leave-the-country-for-health-care-says-new-reportThe biggest problem in the Schools here in the U.S. is the teachers unions.
Aside from their Ridiculous WOKE agendas which traditionally have been about slowing down the progress of the good students so the bad ones won’t lose their competitive advantage, what has happened is that blue collar women have become the teachers and frankly , are working mostly to get a pension and have their summers off.
My wife taught in a 100% minority school, for 30 years , , she started a “ book club” with her most interested students during lunch, started a Chess Club so they could get a grasp of what strategy was about , taught Shakespeare to her 4th graders , was beloved in the community and had to write all of the Grant requests and much other paperwork because many of the newer teachers weren’t very literate and even her Assistant Principal, who’s job it was, couldn’t do it.
She finally quit when they told her to stop worrying about enriching the children but just train them to pass the tests.
As for the life expectancy ,
Sadly , amongst minority populations , we have had in recent years, a tremendous increase of deaths to young people in those communities from shootings and self- inflicted things like overdoses etc.
additionally, during the Obama years , there was an enormous increase in amount of opioid use and subsequent deaths of young people a few years later that continues but is subsiding quickly.
So, unscientifically, I would imagine that if you break down the reasons for the CONTENT that Canada’s life expectancy is 3 years longer and put it in proper context, I think you will find that the U.S. still has the best healthcare in the world and as a percentage plenty of very old people.
To bad some of our Blue State Governor’s thought it was a good idea to put Covid patients in our nursing homes or many more would still be alive now also.
Lastly, yes, as long as the U.S. allows countries like Canada and the EU to purchase drugs, often developed in America at a cost of billions of dollars, at much cheaper prices, those Countries can prosper, heck, the EU hasn’t spent beans on defense in many years and if the U.S. didn’t protect them through NATO and didn’t allow them to be protectionist against U.S. goods and services they would have a lot of trouble providing anything, let alone good healthcare.
About a year ago in GB , I read that a women was guaranteed to see a Dr , if she found a lump in her breast, within 90 days and was again guaranteed to begin treatment within the next 90 days and they were having trouble meeting those timetables and had apologized publicly.
If one of my friends wives finds a lump, she sees her Dr. within 24 hours, sees a specialist , often immediately, sometimes waits a few days and begins treatments immediately, when necessary.
Lastly, my friend is a top eye cancer Specialist and has young Drs. from all over the world come to his practice to learn.
Radiating an eye usually leaves the vision somewhere between 20-200 & 20-400 depending on location. He uses a different isotope and his system often leaves the patient with 20-20 to 20-60 vision but none of the other countries in the EU or Canada is willing to pay the extra money to save that vision in only 1 eye, so only he uses it and the person I know who he treated actually sees 20/20 in that eye, after cataract surgery also.
For years I have I have read a perverted view of the U.S. in the BBC and other news reporting services, plenty of content to support their anti- U.S. agenda , little Context.
proof of the pudding?
People from every country in the world, often from Europe and Canada too, are lined up to enter the U.S.
