AMERICAN HEALTH
President George W Bush says that the American health service is the best in the world. To none-Americans that is so obviously untrue as to be laughable, and must sound arrogant and offensive to the millions of Americans who struggle to pay their medical and drug bills.
We all know that the British Health Service is NOT the best in the world, and we are struggling to improve it, but it is far better than the American system, as a new survey from Cambridge and Harvard Universities prove.
In a study of WHITE ONLY males, it was found that Brits live almost a year longer than Americans, and that infant mortality rates are lower in the UK.
The research found that rates of disease such as diabetes, lung cancer, and high blood pressure among Americans were up to twice as high as in the UK, and Americans also had higher rates of heart disease, heart attacks and strokes, and obesity and high cholesterol are much more likely in America. All this despite the fact that Americans spend almost twice as much on health as we do, and if you were to include Hispanics and coloured people into the survey, the figures would be even worse, as they tend to be the poorer end of American society, and in America, poor often means less medical care.
In this, as in so many things, Bush should hang his head in shame rather than boast, or at least keep his mouth firmly shut.
Of course the reason that these poor people are taken in by this bullshit is that they have been told since they were little kids that America has the best health system in the world.
And America wants to export its values to the rest of the world????????