It is often stated that the United States has the best health care system in the world. Wouldn quality of health care decrease in Connecticut under this Act?
No. The best health care in the world is available in the United States if you can pay for it. However, the United States does not have the best health care system in the world. To evaluate the health care system of the United States, the health care statistics of American citizens must be compared with the health care statistics of the citizens in other industrialized countries that utilize a different health care system. The United States is the only industrialized country that does not insure access to health care as a right of citizenship. All of the industrialized countries, except Germany, utilize a single payer system, as this Act proposes. Germany utilizes a multipayer system, somewhat similar to the health care system proposed by President Clinton in 1992. Among the 29 industrialized nations, the United States ranks 20th and 21st in life expectancy among males and females respectively, 23rd in infant mortality, and last with regard to most immunizations. These statistics are a
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